[ReganDude]

Under Net Neutrality, Comcast wouldn’t be able to increase charges on Netflix and thereby the consumer.

I don’t understand why everyone is against Net Neutrality.

You all realize that if there is no Net Neutrality, then Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and etc. could decide to limit Free Republic baud rate just the same as how they would limit Netflix’s?

So your ISP could decide on its own- outside of market influence- to slow down your access to FR...to Netflix...to Gmail, whatever! And what are you going to do if that happens? Go to another ISP? Well what if they decide to collude against what they think is “hate speech”?

[dfwgator]

I don’t understand why everyone is against Net Neutrality.

You really trust the government, and this administration that much?

[Yardstick]

If they collude against some type of speech, and if that collusion irritates people, then it creates a potential market for other providers who don’t irritate people in that way.

OTOH, if the government decides to shut down your speech, you are simply screwed. There is no hope for an alternative.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I don’t understand why everyone is against Net Neutrality."

1. Because we don't trust the law to be only what its defenders claim it is.

2. Because all of the details of the law have not been publicly debated and vetted.

3. Because the proponents of the law don't WANT it to be debated and vetted.

4. Because liberals love to pass laws with a popular selling point which contain vague language which will eventually be used to implement policies most people would oppose.

5. Because progressives have long made known their desire to suppress or even criminalize dissenting points of view.

[dfwgator]

“I don’t understand why everyone is against Free Health Care.”

[NeoCaveman]

I’ll say it: Netflix is a welfare queen and the really didn’t “build that” the companies that laid the cable and fiber built that.

[Rastus]

You’re right. We need the government to step in and stop from happening something that has never happened. FR would cease to exist if not for the magnanimity of Lord Barry.

[Wuli]

Your argument: “You all realize that if there is no Net Neutrality, then Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and etc. could decide to limit Free Republic baud rate just the same as how they would limit Netflix’s?” is a strawman (not realistic) argument used by net neut advocates to bring in the useful idiots who know nothing of what is really going on.

Certain giants of Internet content and function arena, very much like being unregulated true free enterprise companies, but all (Google, Netflix, Amazon) have business models that want the companies supplying a service they need (the ISPs) to NOT be unregulated free enterprise companies but to be price-controlled de facto public utilities.

Why would any ISP seek to “throttle” bandwidth or speeds to or from FreeRepublic? Matter of fact they wouldn’t because a FreeRepublic is like a VW Beetle on the Internet highways, compared to the massive behemoths like a Google, Amazon or Netflix.