Videodrome

wilwheaton:

Mr. Genachowski said tiered pricing, will “increase consumer choice and competition” and yield in “lower prices for people who consume less broadband.” Although, as Electronista notes, “he did not clarify what mechanism would drive prices down.”

Public interest groups have decried the potential impact broadband data caps will have on the market and innovation, not to mention the biases baked in the plans. Comcast, for example, counts Netflix video into its data plan, but lets its own XFinity service stream away.

 …“increase consumer choice and competition”… yeah, that’s exactly what will happen. I mean, except for how that’s not what’s going to happen, at all.

Consumer choice and competition, as if Comcast doesn’t hold a monopoly on certain areas (like mine). I’ve never gone over the 250 GB bandwidth cap (which Comcast says most users don’t). But now they need to change it again because we’re running out of internet or something. Another head of the FCC who is retarded with regard to the internet.

(via djstoa)