Originally posted by AddiX
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Some republicans will rush to defend this decision (god knows why), but in practice it leads to discomforting outcomes.
Even if it does not cause ISPs to crush out competition by forcing on users it's own services (or making access to it's own services faster or cheaper), it will still lead to things like this
This is an actual page (google translated) from a wireless carrier in Portugal. You have to pay extra depending on the kinds of services you'd like to use (separate from subscription costs from those companies).
And like you and others have mentioned, all those companies would have to do is leave out certain services all together or charge more for them to stifle competition in a particular space. It's hypothetical, but it's an uncomfortable power to leave in the hands of relatively few internet service providers.
Arguably the scarier thing is that a company could decide it doesn't like certain sites (ie types of content on that site, political views expressed by those on that site etc) and shut off or slow down access to it. Not that that's an inevitability, but it's now in their hands to be able to make decisions like this.
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