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john dvorak accidentally makes some good points
John Dvorak is pretty much famous for being wrong about everything, but he hits the nail on the head when it comes to “net neutrality”:
Net neutrality becomes a dangerous issue
Even without this proposal from John Kerry, few people realize that the Internet has been almost entirely unregulated for most of its existence and likely thrived because of it.
The proponents of net neutrality are proposing the wrong cure for the problem that exists here. The problem is the concentration of power over the Internet into a increasingly smaller group of companies.
This is due to government granted monopolies (the local loop being the most egregious) and government control over wireless spectrum. Note that this is why we typically have at most two carriers in any one area using a specific spectrum.
In other countries where the local loop is not a monopoly and many carriers can compete, people generally don’t pay ridiculous amounts of money to send a few characters of text via SMS. When such pricing anomalies exist, then you know a monopoly is in place. And it’s extremely rare for a monopoly to exist without a huge amount of government help.
Net neutrality, despite its benign name, could exacerbate the problem.
