Austrian school of economics would agree with this analogy. I often hear people say how greatful they are that the government (or Al Gore? Yeah right) gave us the internet. I respond by saying that what they did there was to make sure that this network is centralised and still within their control. The free market was well on their way to create their own world wide web. The difference would have been that each company out there would have contributed each their own expertise in a much more decentralised network. Well that sounds complicated, some would say. To which I reply, complicated systems is exactly what comuters excel at, and the end user would have never noticed. You want to see videos? There a company on the network that takes care of that. You want to see x rated stuff, there an other that does a better job at that and most likely would not overlap with the other that provided the g rated stuff. How would the high bandwidth be provided? Well there this other company that takes care of that. Well how would we get the free stuff? Well nothing is free, you will pay for it one way or asnother. The free market would have taken care of all of the nuance in the background that the end user would never need to concern themselves with. Aol survived, but what happen to compuserve, mindspring and lots of the other networks that were popping up inthe mid 80s. I am sure they would have done a better job than Al Gore. BTW, just being sarcastic with this Al Gore credit, I know better as to who invented the internet and forced it down our throat. If you all agree or disagree let me know what you think.
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Very well said. That is the main thing we want to keep it a 'free' market system. Taking away Net Neutrality will change that. (It took alot of research when this was first going on, since I had to explain it to my customers at the time.)
What type of customers do you have?
I worked at a cable (one of the tope 3) provider for 10 yrs, I had to step away a couple of years ago.
Oh, so for you to agree with what I said above says something. Me, I am a mechanical engineer.
Yes, I totally agree with what you said :)