Comment Re:Change (for the worse) happens by degrees (Score 0) 191
>Your ISP is going to scale back or cancel any rollout of faster service or they will lower everyone's speeds or they will charge everyone more money.
Hahahahahah...they do this NOW - this will just give them an actual excuse.
The fact is that a whole generation was brainwashed into the notion that government = bad, which I think ultimately dovetails with the prevailing general social philosophy of "it's all about ME." Anyone or anything that tries to put any kind of rules on me is bad because it might interfere with what I want to do. These same retarded arguments that "any rules = destruction of the industry" were pushed by the auto industry originally when speed limits were imposed, and when safety laws were passed. I remember how the industry fought air bags to the bitter end...it now is typically a selling point in automobiles, and created a whole industry for the manufacture of the devices. What destroyed the American auto industry wasn't government regulation, it was the greed and stupidity of their management (and union management, it must be said.)
Any system can impose ridiculous bad laws and destroy innovation. It can also impose good laws that foster improvements. This argument that "any laws inevitably will result in NAZIS TAKING OVER AND FINDING THE ARK OF THE COVENANT" is worse than kindergarten logic.