WOW! Please check out this Dangerous Twist on Net Neutrality.

[pepperbear]

This is the first I have seen of the right's take on this issue.

http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/legislative_issues/federal_issues/hot_issues_in_congress/technology/Net-Neutrality-Government-Prepares-to-do-to-the-Internet-what-its-doing-to-the-Auto-Industry.htm

For those unfamiliar with the term, “Net Neutrality” refers to the dangerous movement to have government dictate Internet providers’ business models, and the manner by which they can transmit data. Network owners, who have invested enormous resources into establishing infrastructure, would be forced to treat all Internet sites and applications the same, regardless of the capacity that they consume. For example, providers would be forced to treat larger sites, whose video and data transmissions create bottlenecks, the exact same way that they treat smaller mom-and-pop sites.

To analogize, Net Neutrality is like telling a railroad that it cannot treat a customer moving twenty railcars of freight any differently than it treats a customer moving one crate of goods.


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Unfortunately for consumers, Net Neutrality, if fully implemented according to proponents’ desires, will diminish the incentive to extend America’s broadband infrastructure, because providers will be unable to manage traffic flow more efficiently, or engage in necessary price and service differentiation. It will also expand the size, scope and authority of government by necessitating new regulatory commissions and all-powerful bureaucrats. Furthermore, network providers would be less able to distinguish themselves through differing service options, and trial lawyers would naturally discover an all-new litigation treasure trove.


Another example of equal access being bad for business.

[spooked911]

1. typically idiotic and twisted

but I imagine this will be their talking points on the issue

[BlooInBloo]

2. (shrug) They lie.

[zeemike]

3. Are you surprised at all?

What good is it to them if they cannot dominate and control and gobble up the little fish.

[blogslut]

4. The "Right" and the "Telcos" that love them

Bad for business my fat fanny. Those pipes are a public trust and the corporations that profit from implementing their use want a double dip of the take. We already pay for access. Webmasters already pay for hosting. Hosts already pay for hookups to the big pipes. The pipes are underwritten by the government.

[walldude]

5. Net Neutrality is almost a moot point...

This is the real problem with America. Not only do we not think outside the box anymore, we are the damn box. This is a huge debate over technology that will be obsolete within 10 years, probably way less than that. The next generation of the WWW is coming fast. When it gets here the debate over speed, capacity and traffic will be totally moot.

[silverojo]

7. No matter what the technology, ISP's will be the ones to deliver it

ISP's are businesses. They will seek to control whatever form of communication is around 10 years from now.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. In the same way that Universal Healthcare will diminish the incentive for people to be doctors or

drug companies to make new drugs?

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