(12-15-2017, 08:48 PM)Dakota Wrote: Please people. Supply and demand will always dictate these things. Just like when there was only one telephone company. I remember when long distance costed like ten cents per minute within the US because AT&T could do it. There were no other options. Once cellular service came about, all the sudden telephone bills plummeted.

This is much ado about nothing.

The law of supply and demand goes out the window when government-endorsed monopolies are in play. That's the problem here. If I had as many choices of ISP as I do grocery store, they were all competing for my dollar and I could go to any one I choose, the need for net neutrality would not exist. Because governments hand out monopolies to a single carrier, that carrier has no incentive to price itself competitively. In fact, it has every incentive to do exactly the opposite and get every penny it can out of its customers, because they have nowhere else to go.

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