The Comcast-Netflix deal sent a shockwave through every corner of the Internet today. A lot of people fear the worst. I do not, but that is only because I do not know what to believe at this early stage. Almost everyone seems to believe that this is not going to be good for the consumer over the long term, and that will probably be the case without swift action (meaning, the ball better be rolling within 18 months) by the government to curb the powers of ISPs in what is rapidly becoming a small oligopoly. This is gonna be a big folks, and it is shaping up to be one of the top five issues of 2016. People are fed up with these cable companies, and it is not going to go over very well when the same companies start raising rates and nickel and diming for ISP service. Or when people find out that other services are going up in price due to the actions of these leviathans.
Key questions-
1. Will this hurt the chances for the Comcast/Time Warner merger to be approved?
2. Is this really a violation of net neutrality?
3. Why did Netflix do this? Did they have an ulterior motive that has yet to come to the fore?
4. Will the government do anything?
The two best articles as of this moment-
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