judd-hustlebear

This is not a debate about appropriate intentions. This is a debate about potential consequences.

I don't see anything at all wrong with the Metro PCS offering. If you want any of their options, you're getting a fair deal. Completely unlimited internet access is still being offered, so no one is actually restricted or harmed.

As Nazi Germany can always serve as example, the alternatives discussed here are not between having laws and not having laws. The alternatives are between laws that protect our individual rights and laws that violate them.

When government begins meddling in the affairs of content delivery, it is not only an innappropriate harmful intrusion, but leaves a door open for content itself to be regulated or up for public vote.

Precisely. As long as that power was obtained through voluntary cooperation in the market, there is no concern. Power in a free market sense is only gained by being valuable. No longer valuable to your customers, no longer powerful.

Government Power and Market Power are pretty much opposite.