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Deconstructing "Content Provider" Part II

FCC Head Ajit Pai: How killing Net Neutrality Will Set the Internet Free is wrong.

The internet is not entertainment. Citizens use it to pay their bills, write and send letters, buy medicine, download legal government documents, pay taxes, organize, exercise their First Admendment Right, keep up with current events, check the weather ...
It's not that I don't trust these behemoth carriers, I just don't think they're bright enough to handle this.
Should they be making more money off of the bytehogs?
Yes.
But not like the cable companies.
I pay for a basic "package" from my cable company. My cable company chooses the news I get to watch. I don't have a choice at my price level. When I need to check the current weather, or to hear another take on the events of the day, I HAVE to go on the internet.
We are already complaining about the slants websites and cable news put on events, and then we purposely add another layer?
My cable company governs how I see the world by deciding what I get to see, or rather... my income does.
If you want socialism, this decision will facilitate your desire.
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I have never understood why the NY Times wanted me to pay to go on their website. Why they thought the transfer of their print newspaper to the web was the same.
I used to read the NY Times constantly, until I moved and the cost was prohibitive.
A news website can be print, streaming video (TV), and (something no one has thought of yet..) just sound.
If news websites employed "Web Radio", smart cars could employ it, and you could listen to it on your phone (like the old transistor radio's), or on the smart TV in the kitchen.
The sight impaired could access the sound, and the hearing impaired could read the print.
Using all these attributes the New York Times now becomes a channel that has 6 levels, plus supplements.
The first level, print with ads could be free...print without ads...sound with ads..
Electronic books and audio books have become popular. The Times could feature its own writers or anybody else for a download price.
I don't get my local print news from the local papers' newsprint or their website, I get it from a local TV stations print website that has video.
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