ironsoul opened this issue on Dec 22, 2018 ยท 47 posts
wolf359 posted Wed, 26 December 2018 at 1:06 PM
These are also the people behind the demise of net neutrality.
Net neutrality was doomed from the very beginning IMHO.
Soon Free broadband internet access will be as ubiquitous as running water in urban population centers. It is inevitable and Wifi will likely become a mandatory part of building codes.
Net neutrality was predicated upon the assumption that providers ability to reserver the higher bandwith for those affluent users able to pay would result in creating a subclass of users with less access to higher speeds.
This will always be the case with commercial services in a capaitalist system .
I recently waited two hours past my 12 PM dentist appoinment for three adult molar extractions because I not wealthy have "United Health" (aka)"obamacare".
OK ..Dental surgery cannot be performed over the internet.
However many adminstrative ,time consuming labor intensive federal& municpal services are being delivered online and will save goverments huge labor costs.
The ISP's can charge all they want for people/companies need to move huge amounts of Data. online. As of this moment ,people on food stamps, qualify for a free basic andriod smart phone and basic Data plan via "safelink" and "assurance wireless" . paid for by the federal goverment.
Here in New york there is a free broadband wi fi tower on every corner of downtown .Manhattan
Everyone has basic access for those ever increasing online based federal &state services.