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No, it isn't. It can go over phone lines, wirelessly, over cable lines, etc etc etc. You people blather on and on about natural monopolies as a theory, while completely ignoring empirical data. My own hometown used to have two electricity companies. Then the city council forced a merger and granted a monopoly, and now prices have absolutely EXPLODED.
Fact is that I could personally set up a small wireless ISP in my neighborhood, and it would be competitive.
Pepsi and Coke don't pretend to be the opposite of each other, nor do they get people to rally into camps and set them against each other. THAT is the problem with modern politics. The population is at each other's throats while the central bank steals all of our purchasing power and redistributes it to the 0.1%.
Yes, and that's all well and good. The problem arises when 95% of the population is fooled into voting for a single party with two wings, both of which are working against them.
If that is how they feel, then it's a farce, because they do, in fact, have insurance, from the time they accept a trip until they drop off the passenger. All the commercial activity is covered.
To add to the farce, there hasn't been a single incident (that I am aware of) where these policies have even been exercised.
Yes, they do, which is why, instead of creating ObamaNet (tm), we should make a law making it illegal for any government entity to grant a telecom (or any form of) monopoly.
I see, you don't want to trade the devil you know for the devil that only exists in your head.
When was the last time you heard of a private security firm breaking into someone's house to stop them from doing something they don't like (and the wrong house, no less)? Don't say that they can't because there are regulations against it, there aren't, which is why bounty hunters get to do that sort of thing.
Uhhh, no. That is completely wrong. Libertarians are very strongly against government granted monopolies at any scale. It's just that there aren't enough of them in any one jurisdiction save maybe New Hampshire to do anything about it.
The United States was what we would now consider a Libertarian government (most citizens had ZERO interaction with the Federal government at any timescale) from the End of Reconstruction until 1913, when it switched to a mixed market that remained fairly libertarian. It has slid towards fascism at a slow but continuous pace since. The slider is now almost all the way on the other side of the scale, where we will soon be full-on corporatist, where the government impinges on our lives many times every day in an indirect manner, and almost every day in a direct manner.
But that is a good thing, since we are ruled by angels.
People who are against net neutrality are for the internet as it is and has been since it entered the mainstream.
People who are for net neutrality are trying to fix something that they think might be broken in theory because they are afraid of corporations and don't understand market forces.
Yeah, but they only actually effect a very few people, whereas both parties are totally gung-ho about having minimum wage retards finger-fuck 87 year olds in airports.
No, it really doesn't. Words have meaning. Please use them appropriately. Yes, every organization is out for its own best interests, but the vast majority don't pretend to be two seperate diametrically opposed organizations that are fighting each other. Show me the Koch Brothers funding environmentalists, or the NSF giving grants to climate change "deniers", or something along those lines, and you might have an argument.
