[mediocrejoker]

That's fair but you also have to ask what's in it for them to screw their users in this way.

Why would an ISP want to prevent some small, unrelated startup from gaining exposure?

[AnthonyMouse]

> Why would an ISP want to prevent some small, unrelated startup from gaining exposure?

Once the startup takes all the risk to demonstrate market demand, the ISP can come in with their own offering and use the ISP monopoly to destroy the competition.

[creaghpatr]

You mean like Google or Facebook?

[saghm]

It sounds like you aren't a fan of how Google and Facebook operate from that comment; I don't think allowing _more_ companies to act like that is a very good remedy to that problem

[rainbowmverse]

Google was a small, unrelated startup for a long time. Google Fiber was a real threat to the ISPs, but they already had a lock on municipalities and states. Some new upstart might find a way through that. Why risk it when they can just keep them from gaining traction in the first place?

[DubiousPusher]

Telecos across the board are parts of massive conglomerates with fingers in every pie. There are virtually no "unrelated" startups.