[92nina]

"Last month, the Parliament of the Netherlands passed Net Neutrality rules which have, since their passage, forced telecommunications companies to begin restructuring the ways in which they operate. Now burdened with harmful regulations, these companies must now find the means to deal with the financial losses associated with regulatory compliance...."

Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Stumbleupon and Delicious

[silentknight]

How to deal with losses???

SNORT SNORT

They will raise prices - silly. We all know that.

[KarlInOhio]

Do Dutch ISPs have conflicts of interest in delivering a steady flow of high-speed data?

Ooops, lost your Netflix packet. Are you sure you wouldn't rather rent our pay per view movies than wasting your time with Netflix's buffering message?

[VanDeKoik]

This is why they curried favor with the loser geeks on the net to shove this through.

They know those guys only care about P2P, Online games, and streaming HD movies and porn.

Scare them into thinking the ISPs are looking to take that away, and “charge” them to go to certain websites, and they gladly, (without thinking, of course), beg the government to make the net “neutral”.

Now those idiots in the Netherlands have to pay MORE for their connection, and the government has their in to regulating the net.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

This article sounds like it was written by an ISP. KPN made big profits by charging customers exorbitant amounts for going over their data caps. When customers responded by dropping KPN’s own voice and text services to use cheaper services like Skype or Ping, KPN started snooping on customer data packets and began charging extra for Skype usage - this is in no way different than the electric company charging you extra to power a toaster that you bought yourself because it doesn’t happen to be the toaster the electric company wants to rent to you.

I don’t think government intervention is the way to fix problems like this, but repeating the nonsense of ISPs intent on bleeding customers dry only discredits attempts to oppose government imposed network neutrality.