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Multi-tier pricing is fine. It happens today. You want 1.5 Meg download speed? Great, buy that package, you want 10 Meg, 15 Meg, etc.. great. That is the way it should be.

But in a world without net neutrality, you will have the telco’s blocking your content, or SEVERELY restricting your content until websites/providers pay them big bucks to be put on the better tiers.

For example, you can watch netflix on a 1.5 Meg plan. Not any more, customers of 1.5 meg plans will be getting packets once in a blue moon. You’ll have to move up to the 10, 15, 15+ packages to watch netflix.

Without net-neutrality, the telco’s will limit what you can access based on package you buy. And for those saying it’s the telco’s right to do that, I”ll simply add this ...

1) The internet has been built to date upon net-neutrality, it will get to you based on how fast your internet connection is. Now, that would no longer be the case. It goes to the highest bidder 1st.

2) For the telco lovers, what about medium to small business that can’t pay millions to have their sites run fast? You are crippling those company’s abilities to do e-business. This doesn’t boil down to gov’t versus business, it boils down to big business destroying small business.

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This doesn’t boil down to gov’t versus business, it boils down to big business destroying small business.

Yes it does. That is ALWAYS what it boils down to when the federal gov starts regulating. My Internet connection is working just fine as it is. The last thing I need is the Feds adding bureaucratic garbage to it. This is just the first step to them regulating what content you see on the Internet. Don't believe it? THEY HAVE FLAT OUT SAID IT. The Dems are drooling over the prospect of being able to regulate sites like this one over with 'fairness' statues. They have FLAT OUT said it.

Without net-neutrality, the telco’s will limit what you can access based on package you buy.

AFAIK, no telco has proposed that. They have proposed making you pay on the back-end though. Netflix will have to pay your ISP to allow Netflix's packets through to you regardless of your plan. But this means Netflix will have to raise prices.