consumerist.com — Seems like we only hear one side of the Net Neutrality story. I'm for a free and open internet, but not sure the Net Neutrality bandwagon will get us there. To me the Net Neutrality cause will result in more regulations. We do not even have a problem yet. The real problem for U.S. is internet is slow and expensive comparatively. Let us fix that.
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taotehueNov 14, 2006
"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.[2]"
ghoti06Nov 14, 2006
The key thing that I'd like to add, as a member of the Hands Off group listed above, is that what's really problematic is the prospect of those new regulations and a new bureaucracy to enforce them.The telecom industry has already signaled it has no interest in discriminating against websites based on their content or ownership. But of course customers who wanted to pay more for dedicated access would be able to do so. Those regulations would prohibit that, and this is the real argument.Thanks for the link!