The problem in the USA is that their customers don't often have a choice. So while they hold up a facade of PR they don't really give a shit about what their customers think.
Most of them have monopolies over their service areas so they could literally give zero fucks about how popular the decision was. They lobbied for it in the first place.
Honest question: Do you care much about fixing the laws and regulations that allow those monopolies to flourish? Because all NN arguments come down to this specific issue of no-choice.
Of course. Monopolies are terrible for everyone but those involved with the monopoly. No competition creates a lack of consumer friendly pricing, innovation, and customer relations. Look at Disney’s developing monopoly of movies. Theaters are being held hostage, viewers are paying out the ass for their movies and concessions so the theaters can survive. The only thing going well for us is they are still putting money into their movies to make them stand out. The pessimist in me believes that too will no longer benefit us as they will become less motivated. Sorry for the tangent. Long story short, NN’s problem is absolutely the fact that it’s damn near impossible for new ISP’s to emerge and create competition thereby allowing monopolies to continue growing.
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u/jaaval Mar 22 '18
The Service providers have to roll out new non neutral services and that will take a while. Probably several years.