NEW COLUMN POSTED: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WHY NET NEUTRALITY IS A TERRIBLE IDEAhttp://www.dailywire.com/news/24004/everything-you-need-know-about-why-net-neutrality-harry-khachatrian …
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Replying to @Harry1T6
Without common carrier rules, what’s to prevent a local ISP monopoly like Comcast from denying small business, game developers, and publishers access to their residential customers, and blackmailing them for arbitrarily large amounts of money?
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @Harry1T6
Is there any incentive for a grocery store to remove the most popular yogurt brand after bringing in their on private label yogurt? Should the yogurt cost the same? There are free markets even within a monoply. It cuts waste, creates better products, and better prices.
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Most Americans have access to many stores but only 1 or 2 broadband providers. Thus monopoly, oligopoly, and implicit collusion issues are at the forefront. Witness smartphones: 2 platforms, both demanding 30% of software revenue.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @Harry1T6
You bring up 30% in software for the 2 marketplaces but we still pay 30% on XBox, Windows Phone, and Steam. Its industry standard. If you made an Epic marketplace for games I'd gladly pay 35%. I don't think that has anything to do with net neutrality.
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It’s effectively a set of locked-in platform oligopolies that, for whatever reason, refrain from engaging in price competition. Compare to retail stores, who compete robustly on price and quality.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @Harry1T6
Price gouging laws in countless states specify that "gouging" is restricted to states of emergency. So what is to stop every gas station in middle of nowhere from charging 10x national avg. on gas, every day? Ease of entry for competition. Deregulation, not NN, is the way forward
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Nothing resembling an open competitive framework for ISPs exists or is in progress. You’d need forced last-mile decoupling as in Europe, across all 50 states. It’s a nice theory, but there is zero foundation for the idea that it will save us from monopolies.
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