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kleinbl00  ·  2899 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FCC Republicans vow to gut net neutrality rules “as soon as possible”

There are two primary business models in intellectual property:

1) Establish a bottleneck and charge people to get through it.

2) Find an existing bottleneck and charge pennies on the dollar to eliminate it.

Classified ads are (1). Craigslist is (2).

AT&T is (1). Skype is (2).

The New York Times is (1). Reddit is (2).

If you're an ISP, you're (1). If you're Netflix or Youtube or Spotify or Pandora, you're (2).

(1) businesses are old enough to have names like "American Telephone and Telegraph." (2) businesses are so new that their predecessors had extraneous "e"s and "i"s starting their names.

Liberals favor (2). Conservatives favor (1). There will come a time when the guy who founded Napster will bid on Warner Music Group because fuck you, that's why but Team Trump's more of a Jammie Thomas mindset.