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| said by Gogo1  :said by funchords :said by battleop :"If there were a law that could fine ISP's for a certain percentage of un-happy customers." There is it's called voting with your feet. Every business has this kind of "fine" in place. Not enough competition. Exactly. Makes you wonder why stupid Americans keep voting for big government, interventionist politicians. Oh wait. Thats all there is to vote for because your country is owned by the republicrats. That's not what I mean, either.
We're talking about ISPs here. In meat-space, they'd be analogous to our local roads. With few exceptions, our roads are publicly owned and operate neutral to someone's source or destination. (If Target owned the roads, then the good roads would go to Target and the dilapidated roads would go to K-mart and Walmart.)
Even when a new store or development builds the roads as a condition of building, that neutrality of travel is enforced. Competition is preserved because Burger King simply cannot pay anyone to prevent customers from driving to McDonalds.
Currently, we all sign up for "the Internet" but the broadband ISPs have told the government that they're an "Information Service" like CompuServe or the old America Online. As a result, most broadband ISPs don't have to carry the competition as a matter of law, and where they do they manufacture bogus charges and network conditions to make sure it is competition in name only.
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