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In reply to the discussion: (Must get this off chest).... Unless Obama walks his talk on Net Neutrality, he is a Phony [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)separate concept--first, and those who insist that the public good is best served by a robust corporate environment...the whole "The business of America is business!" crowd. I don't have a problem with letting that tension play out. I hope they come to a resolution that is fair and equitable at the end of the day, and everyone who is part of the process feels like they've been heard.
There are those who think that grandma who just wants to watch the video of her grandson and check her email should not have to, in effect, pay for the kid down the street hogging bandwidth and playing video games eighteen hours a day. The small amount granny uses in a month is equivalent to what that kid down the street uses in a day--should they be paying the same monthly fee? There most certainly should be a baseline of service, but what that is, has yet to be established. And with advances in technology, what is now scarce and hard to deliver will one day become a non-issue. Of course, the whole issue of Verizon (to use them as an example) turning off the "tap" and slowing down Business A, while opening up the faucet so Business B can flow like mad has to be addressed too. The issues are myriad--it's not just about potential throttling access to/from websites, it's also about distribution of use, and sippers v. pigs, for lack of a better term.
It will all get sorted out--and it's not inexcusable, it's a discussion that needs to be had. If we don't have it now, we'll be having it later--everyone with an interest in this issue does have an awareness that it's on the block, now we've got four months to encourage everyone to weigh in, pipe up, speak out.