Big/Corporate Brother need to squash Net Neutrality like a cockroach for one simple reason. You can't have uppity blogers contradicting the Corporte bottom line. It's all about Managing the Perception! It's about the money.
But it gets better: Are you going to allow the criminal fools in office to write legislation on a technical issue like Net Neutrality?
Here is a clip from a discussion at Slashdot Org (News for Nerds!)
People like Rep. Sensenbrenner in Congress who advocate totalitarian controls over your internet use [blindmindseye.com] or a private business that can't legally tell you what to do except through a contract you signed with them? Quite frankly with the way that Congress is these days, I wouldn't trust them to regulate our local parking meters, let alone our section of the Internet.
As far as anti-competitive behavior, like the Madison River issue, goes, there are existing federal legal mechanisms for handling them. It's not anti-competitive for Verizon to only sell 25% of their network. It's their loss if their customers want to pay for better access, but can't get it because Verizon is reserving too much of its network for its own service.
The problem is, as always, government regulation at every level. There are enormous government-imposed costs on starting your own broadband or television service. The best way to create a competitive market is genuine deregulation, like ending all taxes and regulations on the construction and development of local private networks. All of them. Toss that spawn of satan out with the bathwater and be done with it.
Now let me ask y'all this. If Sensenbrenner gets his way, raise your hand all of you who want the government to be your ISP via municipal services. That's a straight ticket to getting no sympathy from the court when your privacy rights are screwed by the government.
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