(12-22-2017 08:26 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(12-22-2017 06:54 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(12-21-2017 10:44 PM)Owl75 Wrote:  

(12-21-2017 03:33 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Even though airline deregulation has driven massive savings to the consumer? Sorry, I cannot really support a system where every route is determined by the government, every ticket price is determined by the government, and an airline would be fined for serving better food than their competitor.

Nice straw man because there is nothing possible between what you describe and total deregulation.

I hope net neutrality works as well as banking deregulation did. What could go wrong?

What straw man? I'm describing the US airlines before deregulation. And with all due respect, the amount of savings driven to the consumer through actual competition has been astronomical.

He is also describing exactly the regime that the common-carrier scheme would allow: not just prohibiting anti-competitive practices, but authorizing the five people on the FCC to decide whether every single thing is or is not "fair and reasonable". In anything other than the shortest of short runs, who do you think will exert the strongest influence over those assessments, and who do you think that power will mostly benefit? Hint: it won't be consumers, innovators, or entrepreneurs.

Thank you for making more generalized and more explicit my problems with internet provision being lumped into the statutory/regulatory morass of the common carrier regime. I should have said that directly instead of making issue by singular fact issues.