I'm confused: I thought that internet service providers DON'T have "a duty to carry content from other sources without unfair discrimination"? Wasn't that behind the whole "we don't need no net neutrality," that the market would just take care of that and we didn't need to make ISPs public utilities? But now the push is to call services that USE the private, non-utility infrastructure "utilities"? My head is spinning.
Note: I'm not just calling hypocrisy and leaving it at that. I'd _love_ for major tech companies to face _realistic_ and _useful_ regulation to help foster competition and innovation. But if we're not going to do that for Comcast but we _are_ going to do that for Google that's crazy. And let's be 100% honest here: the only reason this is happening is because, by population, the majority of English-speaking Internet users are not Republican (not the same thing as conservative!), so somehow Republicans are surprised and cry foul when search engines and other algorithms derived from the Internet used by the world's population then reflect that actual disparity in the results they return. But I guess I should not be surprised that the same party supporting voting limitations also supports artificially resurrecting the "fairness doctrine" of the 1980s for the Internet that was killed by the administration of their legendary hero, Ronald Reagan (legendary because the actual man and the popular image are nowhere near the same man).
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/spurred-by-clarence-thomas-ohio-ag-wants-google-declared-a-public-utility/
Note: I'm not just calling hypocrisy and leaving it at that. I'd _love_ for major tech companies to face _realistic_ and _useful_ regulation to help foster competition and innovation. But if we're not going to do that for Comcast but we _are_ going to do that for Google that's crazy. And let's be 100% honest here: the only reason this is happening is because, by population, the majority of English-speaking Internet users are not Republican (not the same thing as conservative!), so somehow Republicans are surprised and cry foul when search engines and other algorithms derived from the Internet used by the world's population then reflect that actual disparity in the results they return. But I guess I should not be surprised that the same party supporting voting limitations also supports artificially resurrecting the "fairness doctrine" of the 1980s for the Internet that was killed by the administration of their legendary hero, Ronald Reagan (legendary because the actual man and the popular image are nowhere near the same man).
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/spurred-by-clarence-thomas-ohio-ag-wants-google-declared-a-public-utility/
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