(12-18-2017, 11:29 AM)Hwrong_box Wrote:

(12-18-2017, 07:42 AM)JagsFanSince95 Wrote: The sad and unfortunate part of life in 2017 is this bold part. The answer to this question is overwhelmingly yes, for a growing number of people. Damn the facts, or the economics, or the simple fact we are supposed to be a "free" country. Governments can only gain anything by taking from others, they have no money, or goods, or create anything. Yet we are one of the highest regulated and taxed markets in the world, and have become heavily reliant on government as a society. 

NN is only about 2 years in, to think this is some doomsday for the internet is a little naive. Most companies, including ISPs, want happy customers. The ones who don't, or can't satisfy customers enough, usually go under or get bought by more successful companies. Unless of course you're "too big to fail", then you get theft(sorry, tax) dollars and get bailed out to "save the economy". Then you get $15 trillion dollars of debt over the last 2 administrations, taxed and printed into existence, with hundreds of trillions in unfunded liabilities our government has already promised that they have no way to pay for. But, the majority of citizens ignore that for whatever reason. Just provide more government, regulations, taxes and more spending. I think getting government OUT of more and more things, is the way to go.

Generally I would agree...Less government involvement would be much better if companies would police themselves and provide a quality product for a reasonable price...

What I do not want to see is ISPs who decide to start offering internet packages like this (keep in mind this is just a for example only and not indicative of what may or may not happen scenario)... BillyBob.com  internet packages Email only with 10 attachments under "X" KB/MB per month for $19.99. Premiere package with unlimited email, attachments, ( plus video and audio) for $25 per month...Silver package 20MB including unlimited email and attachments and web surfing/downloads for $39.99 per month, Gold package includes the silver package plus 20 MB of streaming, Platinum package is unlimited streaming for any internet usage for $65.99 per month...

I feel like the ISPs will start offering packages as above not to mention entertainment packages for watching things like movies videos sports et.al Cable ISPs already do that, to a certain degree especially sports packages and I think ISPs would love to maximize revenue by doing the same thing if they were allowed to do so, so in this case, I would like to see government regulation