[orthecreedence]

> But more generally, slow-loading websites make the ISP's service look shitty

Exactly, so people will just leave that ISP and sign up with one that doesn't throttle traffic. Except most people have only one ISP in their area. Yay free market!

[exelius]

Even in a truly free market, most areas would only have one ISP. See how Verizon and AT&T have dramatically scaled back or stopped their FiOS/U-Verse rollout plans. If a company with easements and existing infrastructure (and thus lower costs) has decided it can't justify the investment, how would anyone else?

[orthecreedence]

I was saying "Yay free market" as in "a truly free market is a bad idea as seen by local ISP monopolies," not as in "our free market has failed us and needs to be freer."

In a truly free market, there would be one company that owns everything, including infrastructure. Not a world I'd like to live in.

[randac]

You only need look outside the US to see that's garbage.