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US Broadband Monopolies Once Again Push Idea That Tech Giants Should Pay Them Billions For No Reason (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We’ve noted several times how European telecom giants have somehow convinced European policymakers that technology giants like Netflix and Google should annually give them billions of dollars… for no coherent reason. The proposal is dressed up to sound like a sensible adult policy aimed at shoring up broadband access to the downtrodden. In reality it’s net…

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Um, excuse me? So is my internet going to become free then?

What the fuck are we paying ISPs for if they just want money from the sites we connect with? The whole point of the internet is to connect sites (whether you are consuming a video on Netflix or two banks connect their networks via a secure VPN) and ISPs are the last mile to customers.

We already saw during COVID that there are really zero bandwidth problems. Fuck your double-dipping.

I’m really sick of all the artificial scarcity that tech bros try to invent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's capitalism. In this day and age bandwidth needs to be a utility, but as long as it is treated as a consumer good we are gonna get gouged. Next year spectrum is allowed to set data caps so any of you living without a care are gonna get a slap in the face for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's not at all capitalism. ISPs are a regulated monopoly. If it were capitalism there'd be a choice.

Try starting your own ISP, the government in your towb wont let you. At most this is crony capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is like the power companies charging dryer or oven manufacturers more because "they're not paying for critical infrastructure".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

After Covid, I just don't get how a. lawmakers haven't picked up on the fact that ISPs are all monopolistic pieces of shit, b. the internet is essential to modern life, and c. in order to give internet to all americans, you gotta get rid of the ISPs.

in the IRA and countless other bills you see billions in funding for ISPs to lay out high speed internet in new areas. It hasn't worked before, why would it work now? Go to the root of the problem, disregard the lobbyists.