Yes. The totalitarians always use emotional appeals with disguised euphemisms to justify more government control over something. Look at all those “benevolent” fees on your cell phone bills. And now here they come for internet “regulation”. Hopefully a court will intervene on this and halt it.
But... but... but, what about the New World Order, IIluminati and Deep State trying to put it to us and make us their slaves with this Net Neutrality thing?
It's the...
Yeah no company is ever just doing something "...to provide better service". In some cases they might indeed be trying to provide better service, but if so one can bet the reason behind such is to retain customers, get more customers, or figure out ways to make more money.
Governments are not vastly different than companies, in terms of if they are trying to do something then there's normally reasons behind it. Often, there are vast opinions about the reasons.
With companies you at least have options, even if it's limited to picking the lesser evil or going without. With government, your choices are usually comply or suffer the consequences.
Some people have some options to choose between, for who they sign up with and therefore agree to pay money to for their internet service. Some people have less options for such than the number of options they have for who they can choose to vote for in various governmental elections.
Actual lived experience of 57 years has shown otherwise. I go by what actually happens to me, not by what I'm am told by the media is happening. I actually want the government to keep companies in check, because they obviously don't do a darned thing on their own that isn't self-serving.
My 43 years, including nearly 20 in an extremely regulated industry has pushed me to my claim, not the media. There's keeping companies in check, and then there's putting strangleholds on them that allow some to succeed and others to fail based on that action. Remember all the COVID lockdowns? Didn't do a thing to stop that spread, but it stopped tons of businesses. The only ones that thrived were ones that could say up delivery and curb side options that allowed online ordering ahead of time. Those that couldn't suffered heavily, if not shut down completely. That's just one of the more recent major blunders.
And I believe it did stop the spread from getting so much worse than it was. But I know I'm not going to convince you otherwise, so let's agree to disagree.
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