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by drawkbox 3012 days ago
> If the ISPs charged more for content

Multiple problems here:

- The ISPs already charge too much and little of it is going towards innovations/network advancement, instead they want to be content creators and ad platforms instead of charging more to get to gigabit and beyond. ISPs need to get back to innovating on providing better/faster internet service, what they are.

- ISPs should not be involved in content/ads/selling private data as that leads to bias and throttling, we need to have a separation of power from ISPs, the network gateway to the internet, and content creators on top of the internet.

When is it a good idea to have content creators own the network outright? All that leads to is bias, preferential treatment and monopolies (furthering them).

We have made immense mistakes in 2017 allowing ISPs to sell your private data, remove privacy protections at the network level AND the removal of net neutrality.

Net neutrality makes the network provider neutral, simple as that.