http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
“Net neutrality (also network neutrality or Internet neutrality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.”
Essentially, “net-neutrality” is a highly anti-competitive measure preventing innovation such as offering premium Internet services, with the result that all Internet traffic is reduced to the lowest common denominator, that is, all Internet traffic remains equally as slow, which of course is the heart of all socialistic schemes.
If “net-neutrality” were to be applied to the telephone system, then unlimited calls to anywhere in the world would all cost the same as a call to your next door neighbor. Of course, the quality of all those calls would suddenly become equally as bad. Likewise, cell phones would never have been allowed to be utilized under “net-neutrality”, since these represent a premium calling mechanism for which people pay a premium price.
So-called net neutrality amounts to nothing more than applying Marxist principles to the Internet: “To each Internet user according to his need, from each Internet provider according to their ability to pay”.
It’s no wonder Obama whole-heartedly endorses “net-neutrality”(assuming he even understands what it means in the first place, and isn’t endorsing it just because it sounds “fair”.)
I think you are overstating it, the essence of net neutrality is toward data types, not classes of premium services. It means the ISP can’t pick and choose which types of data are treated preferentially.
Many comments I’ve seen reflect a flawed understanding. Without neutrality, there’ll be nothing to stop a service provider like Comcast from deciding that traffic with left-leaning websites should have priority over traffic to Free Republic or Brietbart. Is that what you want?
But Comcast should be free to charge more for greater usage, just like any other regulated industry. The power company can’t give Democrats lower rates than Republicans, but it can surely charge more if you use more electricity.
Neutrality alllows consumers have choices in an open marketplace, not be at the whim of service providers who might like to tilt the playing field one way or another.
NN will ENSURE, WITH CERTAINTY, that the internet is never a suitable replacement for Cable TV or Phone service.
It condemns the USA to a "Service Backwater" where we have to maintain 3 different types of networks for the 3 services.
It a cryin' damn shame to see even Freepers dumb enough to fall for this.
Without NN what’s to stop the Net from becoming like cable? With one ISP offering you amazon, Netflix etc...if they are taking payoffs from the big sites that could also include blocking competition couldn’t it?
It would be like giving the biggest retail store on the block the ability to pay more for the maintenance of the local sidewalks. All of a sudden the sidewalks that lead to their front door are very well maintained but those that lead to their competitors...