How can you eliminate competition that does not exist? By definition, what the cable companies are doing now is eliminating competition, because there is none. Any change is an improvement.
Google is generally capable of thinking long term. The major broadband providers in America are incapable of thinking beyond the next few quarterly statements--otherwise they would not have gotten themselves into this mess.
It's very legitimate to ask whether Google would invest in fiber were it regulated under Title II, because to date they have expressed the distinct unwillingness to enter municipal markets with heavy telecom regulation. They won't even agree to build-out requirements, which are pretty much standard for cable franchises.
As long as all actions are logged and reviewed by an independent ethics committee (with anonymized data if needed), I like it. It couldn't possibly be worse than the way we do things now.
Come on, if Target can predict when a teenager is going to get pregnant, then we can easily keep track of politician's financial lives in however much detail we want. If you want to make a law that says no politician can exceed the median American salary per year, for their entire lives; we can do that. It's just that it won't happen as long as money=power=speech.
And the trackers answer to who, ultimately? Either the politicians themselves, in which case the whole thing is hopelessly corrupt and useless, or some other unelected group, who then become de facto dictators of the country.
Lots of executives around the world make huge profits for their companies and employees, without collecting multimillion dollar salaries for themselves. Since being a millionaire is empirically not required for CEOs, their multimillion dollar salaries could be better used elsewhere.
Because people who're in a position to control company buying are falling over themselves to ensure justice in wages and make sure that people who're in a position to control company buying aren't being overpaid?
