Surprise, surprise. Here comes Big Cable to slay another rule that helps small ISPs compete

And OP is a clickbaiting asshole

Those who tithe the most to their Congressmen receive the kindest legislature. Pony up ISP’s?

I can’t wait for the satellite internet revolution. Give everyone the chance to have the same cheap internet plan, with minimal infrastructure costs (biggest problem here in rural America)

Came here expecting Giant Josh Brolin.

Disappointed.

This is the real threat we face while most people are caught up on net neutrality.

I mean their argument is literally that prices will go down if they can have a monopoly.

If this gets passed, and my cable bill goes up. Would I have the ability to sue the lobbying group?

Edit: words

First and easiest step in this fight: get rid of Super PACS.

This is why crony capitalism *fucking hurts everyone*

I hate these new Comcast comparison commercials.. “we give this, the other guys do not” but the aforementioned “other guys” is just ATT, and they clearly label it as such..

[This video can’t be posted enough on this subject](https://youtu.be/0ilMx7k7mso)

Small ISPs do not compete now. Period. I have owned and run three different small ISPs from the very beginning (pre-WWW, dial-up, and DSL days) and the only reasons small ISPs exist are because of the government regulation that broke up Bell/AT&T forced there to be a “local carrier” which basically cannot be touched. That was great in concept, but what actually happened were that medium-sized (and some quite large) companies used loopholes and other tactics to buy up the actual local carriers or to become the local carrier and yet again squeezed out the small ISPs and now can’t be touched so they enjoy a pseudo-monopoly especially in rural areas. Even the white space spectrum stuff that was supposed to help was a failure and was blocked by almost every major city in favor of the big players.

Name any small ISP that is of any consequence and how they currently (or even previously) “competed” with the big players. I’ll wait.

Reason number 10,000 to vote democratic up and down the ballot.

I’m confused, this article is about ILEC’s and CLEC’s, which is a telecom designation for voice carriers. A MSO is not and will never be an ILEC, many have a CLEC division to offer voice services.

I’d love fiber everywhere, but it’s crazy expensive to build new plant, and that’s not going to change. What really prevents this is every, state, county, city and town’s local government with their hand out working against anyone who wants to install new plant in the right of way. It’s just stupid expensive to comply with 1000’s of little cities rules and taxes. This means the only ones who will are the incumbents, and they have entire divisions devoted to compliance.

I’ve [said it before](https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7poy56/at_the_behest_of_tmobile_the_fcc_is_undoing_rules/dsivdc4/), and I’ll say it again, we need to change our approach to this issue, because right now we are fighting a losing battle. We have in power a political party that honestly believes that whatever is good for huge companies should be codified into American law. And let’s also be honest that there are tens of millions of Americans who believe this sort of policy is what is best for them, so we are going to have to deal with this sort of policy-making until we change the narrative.

As stupid as it sounds, we need to start naming these things in terms middle America can understand. For example:

Net Neutrality is now called **Freedom Internet**- Tell those middle Americans that we want them to be able to watch Fox news and read Breitbart without the chance of some liberal elitist deciding to charge them more for access to those channels and websites. You could even make a commercial and show a picture of Spectrum Headquarters in Connecticut and “Here is where elites in the Northeast want to decide which websites you can visit, and which movies you can watch, and charge you more for whatever they choose, don’t let them. Support Freedom Internet, and tell these people you want the power to choose your internet, not them.”

Local ISP initiatives are now called **American Independence Internet**- In fact brand it with the year 1776, you could even call it **Tea Party Internet** because just like the original [Boston Tea Party was a response](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act) to Government colluding with specific companies to give people less choice, Tea Party Internet aka local broadband is a response to government selling us out to the highest campaign contributors.

It is such a silly sounding idea, but at this point we need to try anything. Any objective person can look at the current FCC plans and see how negative they are for the average American, but sadly the subtleties of the issue are just lost on a huge portion of the population. They hear “less government” or “freedom” and just go with whatever is said next. Perhaps it’s time we helped them by putting these issues in even simpler terms.

Edit: I would be interested in hearing other people’s ideas to make this issues simpler and easier to communicate and understand. The fewer syllables the better. Ideally we need to[ communicate these ideas on a 4th grade level to be effective](http://www.newsweek.com/trump-fire-and-fury-smart-genius-obama-774169).

Man, the amount of effort that is going to be required to undo the trump era is going to consume 2 terms of the next president