Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
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3 edits | Murky because technology changes make hard rules obsolete The reason that the rules are vague is:
1 - Because bureaucrats like them that way. It allows them to make decisions based on what they think is best at any given moment. The fact that that leaves them wide open to lawsuits doesn't bother them because to override their decision in court takes years & lots of money and can only be undertaken by the largest companies of all those that they regulate. So the small companies knuckle under rather than fight. You mean you didn't know that regulators like to pick on those without the resources to fight back(the IRS & the EPA are notorious for that tactic).
2 - Technology changes rapidly. But getting laws and rules changed is very time consuming. The vaguer the rules, the less frequently they need to be changed to handle new circumstances.
But a big downside to murky rules is that the biggest and most well connected and lawyered up companies(big telcos & cable) can usually get a temporary injunction to ignore a ruling until a court case is heard. The end result being that those who theoretically need regulation the most are affected by it the least.
And THAT class is why government regulation is usually a big waste of time and money and never accomplishes what it is supposed to(except provide high paying patronage jobs for the people who contribute to pols election campaigns). Better that the companies fight things out on their own and let the marketplace adjust to technology changes.
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 SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | Holy Shit! GOLFnSUN actually wrote *something* I agree with!
But, the only reason some gov't regulation is a "big waste of time and money" is because the corporations exert their influence to make it such. It isn't the system as much as this huge white-elephant called corporate personage that is pulling it down. |
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Wait, there is an easy solution to the net neutrality problem, as you so clearly stated. Let's just BAN ENCRYPTION! Unless you are a bank or paypal of course. That way, the megacorps can use sandvine to 'manage' their network the best way they see fit (i.e. caps).
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 TechieZeroTools Are Using MePremium
join:2002-01-25
Gibsonton, FL | reply to SLD
Wow, it can't be that politicians are mostly lawyers and/or don't have a clue about what they are trying to regulate since they never actually worked in their life to earn money outside of the government. |
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