Well, the fun part of it is this: Recall how many people howled over SOPA? Well, Net Neutrality is for the most part SOPA with a different mask on it.
And all they did was fiddle with wording, fiddle with some add ons, and miraculously due to the word games a bunch of people who were against SOPA were suddenly for “Net Neutrality” even though they have no idea what it is.
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I think the most significant part of this is that the folks screaming for NN who have no more read the regulations than anyone else (as they have not been revealed) are making far-reaching predictions that the government will or will not “ever” do this or that. This is simply unknowable. But the precedent is hereby set that at some point, “fairness” can and will be used for some lever that inevitably will be used to secure some connected somebody what they perceive as an unfair advantage. This is the nature of government regulation in the 21st century. The fact of the matter is that nobody can predict the future; however the folks who have clamored for more and more government regulation have been astoundingly wrong in the quality and accuracy of their predictions...0bamacare being the most glaring example.
Whatever they clamor for is sold as being “fair”’ but “fairness” is a state achieved by those with the most influence to legislators via contributions (aka bribes) and to think that new startups would have such influence is the height of naivete.
Achieving their “stated goals” could have been fully covered in a simple 3 to 5 page document. What’s in the other 300+ pages?
The pushback will be overwhelming.
It won’t be direct, but rather ignoring what the FCC does and working around it when something the FCC does gets in the way.
They will be like a small man standing with his hand out against the tide.
But they will be an annoyance for quote some time...
This article misses the entire point. Net neutrality has nothing to do with economic activity and the FCC will likely do very little to monitor, much less control, prices. This is all about control of the political speech of anyone who dare criticize the Left. George Soros did not spend 150 million dollars to make sure that the American people could get cheap Netflix downloads. He and others of his ilk can’t stand the fact that they don’t control speech on the Internet the way that they do in the media and on college campuses.
Soon, you will have to pay $300 for an web site license and register with the Federal Government. Anyone objecting to the “hateful” content of your blog can file a complaint with the FCC and you will be shut down until an investigation can be completed. Investigations will take years.
It’s started .... an email I received:
Dear AT&T High Speed Internet Customer,
We hope you are enjoying your AT&T High Speed Internet service.
We want to let you know that starting with your April 2015 bill1, the monthly rate for your AT&T High Speed Internet FastAccess® DSL Ultra 1.5 plan2 will increase $3.00 to $42.00 per month.
The FCC is hardly a charitable organization, and this administration never does anything that is not for it’s own benefit, so who is it that’s going to be making lots of money on the new regulations?
My ISP has multiple tiers of bandwidth at different prices. Does “net neutrality” mean that they can only deliver one bandwidth to consumers at one price?