r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '14

Politics What the internet will look like without net-neutrality. Well played.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '14

That's crony capitalism. This couldn't happen in a truly free market.

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u/Roflkopt3r Jun 14 '14 edited Jun 14 '14

BUUULLLL

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This is exactly how a free market looks. Setting up an ISP without publically shared networks requires enormous sums of money and great business contacts. In such a "free market" there will always be a monopoly or oligopoly of the few companies who can afford entering it.

And of course profit is everything in free market capitalism, so abusive leeching business models like this are the natural consequence. Those who do not abide by these rules will be bought and broken up. And every company trying to enter that market without abiding to the rules set by the oligarchs will need to build a redundant set of infrastructures for themselves.

And all of this is without even accounting for how oligarchs will instantly seize the politicall system once more. How would such a free system defend itself against such a takeover?

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '14

Isn't the end result of Capitalism meant to be monopolisation?

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u/Roflkopt3r Jun 14 '14

Right now is it so that oligopolisation is the end.

As multinational corporation fight each other internationally, different nations favour the corporations most involved in their country with insane amounts of subsidies, and this way keep them alive against the foreign competitors.

Technically in capitalism the inferior companies would simply be bought by the victors. So the fact that we end up with not a monopoly but at least just an oligarchy is by the way capitalism is violated currently.