Quote:70% of the US Internet market is controlled by 5 companies -- soon to be 4 if Comcast and Time Warner merge.  39% of the US have no choice of Broadband Providers at all.  With 65% having 2 or fewer choices.  

 

Keep in mind that these 5 companies will effectively have control over the internet.  Want to start your own social networking site?  You're going to have to pay huge amounts just to get equal speeds to your website.  And that's from startup.  Assuming they want to even allow you access to the fast lane at all if they have their own social networking site.


Then you have this:

http://www.republicreport.org/2014/comca...Q9ODkzMQ==


Someone writes an article that Comcast disagrees with?  "Take it down, or we'll put you in the slow lane!"

 

Big Businesses seeking control like this is part of the reason that big government is bad.  Because the ones with money are the ones that can and will use and abuse government to their advantage.

 

I've always been under the impression traditional internet providers such as cable and DSL lines are set up like the phone companies. You only have one option but isn't that because it's regulated already? I'm pretty sure the argument was and still is you can't have multiple companies running lines on the counties power line so they limit the access to the power lines to one company per area.

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