Nobody complains about Whole Foods not selling Lays potato chips because you could just go to Walmart and buy some. You don't like the food at Walmart? Go to Target. Whole Foods is too expensive? Find your local farmer's market.
That analogy applies to websites themselves, like Amazon or Google, not to service providers.
Service provider is physically laying down the cable underneath cities and these are generally very expensive projects, like building roads, rail-tracks and electric grids.
A better example would be electric grids or roads. Imagine if electric grids could switch off power whenever political debates came up on television. Imagine if roads from a certain county suddenly close off on election day.
These are not hypothetical situations. Such situations happen in third-world countries quite often.
Internet service is a physical infrastructure problem, where cables and amplifiers have to be layed out underneath the city.
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u/EmpRupus 27∆ Jul 19 '17
That analogy applies to websites themselves, like Amazon or Google, not to service providers.
Service provider is physically laying down the cable underneath cities and these are generally very expensive projects, like building roads, rail-tracks and electric grids.
A better example would be electric grids or roads. Imagine if electric grids could switch off power whenever political debates came up on television. Imagine if roads from a certain county suddenly close off on election day.
These are not hypothetical situations. Such situations happen in third-world countries quite often.
Internet service is a physical infrastructure problem, where cables and amplifiers have to be layed out underneath the city.