If you saddle telecom companies with this socialist bill, they will not expand or increase research and development because there won't be any pay off for them.
Grow up, pay for the services you want and live with the services you can afford and eventually, after R&D is paid for, more services are affordable to all.
And please stop spouting this crap about Netflix not paying their bill but should still be allowed to be on line - what in the world is wrong with you? It doesn't matter if it is you not paying a bill, or a major company, service is cut off - why would Netflix EVER pay their bill if their customers could keep paying them but they didn't have to pay their provider?
If you saddle telecom companies with this socialist bill, they will not expand or increase research and development because there won't be any pay off for them.
I still do not understand your position. We do all pay for services we want. Presently, the services are split up by speed. You want to stream a netflix movie? you ain't doing it on dial up. And you probably are not doing it on anything less than DSL type speed. So you do have to pay for services and quality you want. You want internet, you have to PAY. No one is saying you get it for free.
PLEASE try to follow along, because your comments to date are NOT in line with ANYTHING I am saying. The internet is based on transferring data from one location to another. It' built with tons of redundancies, so that if one path is down/damaged/unresponsive it will get to you through another path. There was never suppose to be any reading of the actual data being transmitted, it was just supposed to move along the path. What the telco's want to do is read the data, and decide to block, greatly slow down the info's advancement, or let it go through normally.
That is HORRIBLE for the consumer. It allows the telco's to demand payment from content providers or they will not get to the telco's customers/make it agonizingly slow. It allows telco's to break up the internet into tiers like television is currently setup. I cant think of anything worse from a customer perspective.
If there is no payoff for the telco's then how has FiOS, U-verse, etc... come along. Telco's are paid by the customers for a service, the telco's are not taking a bath here. They are currently making tons of money. What the telco's do want to do is monetize every packet on the internet that passes from content providers, through them, to the customer. That is pure garbage.