Net Neutrality is a principal being touted to keep phone and cable companies from ruining the Internet experience for everyone. According to proponents of neutrality, the people that provide Internet service shouldn't be allowed to charge advertisers, product sellers, or others a premium for making sure that the paid content is shoveled at consumers at higher band-width or with other priorities. If we don't stop them now, we'll end up with all "net" activity covered by cable and telephone ads, sprinkled in with other content that we really don't want to see. Then we'll have to work harder and smarter to get at the information that the we really want. On the other hand, why let government into Internet regulation at all? The Justice Department was asked about regulation, and it is against it. The Federal Trade Commission is for it. The Federal Communication Commission is supposed to decide.
So, what would you rather have...the phone and cable companies messin' with your Internet....or the FCC?
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Why should a company like Google have to pay Time Warner in order to preserve their company, which exists completely on the Internet? To me, giving media companies that sort of control over Internet businesses or communities is rather unfair to those communities which exist solely over the Internet. However, what the FCC wants is also out of line. The last thing we need is a precendent for the FCC to have any sort of control over what regulations the Internet has. Seems to me like everyone is trying to control who gets a piece of the pie, when in the past, people were sharing the pie in an orderly manner. If you ask me, the status quo is more or less the best option, and allowing either the justice department OR the FCC to make a decision regarding a global phenomenon, especially when 80% of them could probably not describe what the Internet is or does, rather undermines the more or less neutral position of the Internet. Why are our choices limited to the FCC or giant media corporations? Let it be, and go back to using our tax dollars and monthly fees to arguing with one another about what kids can watch on television.
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