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So I think the issue here is that what you are describing is one way of packaging network access. I've never ran an ISP but I know people that do it on a daily basis. You cannot guarantee bandwidth. An ISP can package a plan with no caps, no filtering, and insert whatever you like. Before I had fiber I paid more for higher availability with the WISP. WISPs have constraints that cable/fiber providers do not have. The cost of providing Internet to rural customers is high and bandwidth is limited. I paid for no limits. They do no network forming. Others are not will or maybe able to afford the fee I was paying each month. For them they get reduced speeds but at a cost they can afford. I think you are forcing this into something it isn't. I have yet to see examples of ISPs abusing "the Internet". What I have seen is areas with only one ISP option. The bottom line is that happy customers don't leave a service provider. All of the net neutrality regulation ideas I have seen put more barriers between customers and service providers. We don't need more regulation on the Internet. We need less. All we need is the profit motive and open competition.
The other side of this is property rights. If I build out a network and offer you access to it as long as I abide by my contract with you we are good. Right? Why do we need the state to get into it and tell us what we can and can't do? When the state creates false floors on service they create scarcity and higher prices. Net neutrality is something I used to support btw. Every network engineer I have talked to about it has either laughed for given me a long lecture on the problems with the idea. Then I saw how companies were funding the politicians around it and realized. Yeah, this is a scam.
All of the net neutrality regulation ideas I have seen put more barriers between customers and service providers.
I think that's where we lose each other. For me, net neutrality is to tell the government where the line is. It's not (or less) about more regulation of ISPs. It's about more regulation of the government itself.
But I think I see where you're coming from. You see it as limiting what ISPs can do. I see it as limiting what governments can force ISPs to do what they want if it's against net neutrality.
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