> It’s Netflix customers who are demanding this content over broadband subscriptions they already pay an arm and a leg for due to limited broadband competition. It’s being delivered by content companies that have spent countless billions on their own transit routes, undersea cables, bandwidth, cloud infrastructure, and content delivery networks.

>If an ISP network can’t handle this demand, the reason is uniformly because the ISP in question didn’t scale its network upgrades to meet demand. This isn’t your fault. This isn’t “Big Tech’s” fault. It’s the fault of telecom monopolies that routinely hoover up billions in subsidies and tax breaks in exchange for networks they always, routinely, half-deliver.

Ain't nobody getting a free ride.

> They’ve convinced gullible lawmakers that tech companies get a “free ride” on the Internet, and should therefore be forced to pay telecom giants even more money to shore up essential infrastructure.

This makes as much sense as the opposite - forcing ISPs to pay the content providers. That is, it makes no sense, but with enough power could happen. ISPs not willing to deliver the content their customers are requesting should be out of the ISP business, not force third parties to subsidize them.

Edit: This is like being a T-Mobile customer, having a text exchange with a friend on Verizon, and having Verizon try to get money from you for the "free ride" you're getting. Vote D for sensible policies.

2.0? This has to be 4.0 or 5.0 by now.

So I guess if my ISP gets paid by Netflix et al then I don’t have to pay them? Cool. /s

And this time around there's a stalemated FCC where the dem side can't vote down or approve any significant remedies!

Still can't believe either Biden hasn't changed his nominee that is less controversial or the dems in Congress haven't found some way around the idiocy of repubs blocking a full vote to fill the 5th seat.

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Well, 1.0 was really over-hyped so let's see how this one goes.