“To be sure, no one will cast a vote for any Republicans in 2014 just because they love Uber. But when Americans use these services, and they see how incumbent businesses use Big Government to try and kill these startups, the seed that markets, not government, is a better solution to most problems has been planted.”
This is the case for Net Neutrality. The reverse of big business using big government to manipulate profits and market share. With Net Neutrality you have Government mandating that all carriers be neutral with regards to other carriers data packets.
The big carriers are the ones against net neutrality, including the not so big but looming and imposing advance of Google into the carrier market.
Government regulation of the internet is a forgone conclusion. It’s regulated in ways right now. It’s who’s side do you want to be on? I want to be on the free internet of the late 00’s that mandate common carrier neutrality with content providers.
Yes, Net Neutrality requires some government oversight, but non Net Neutrality will require much more and will result in much more.
Don't be naive. There are only two valid views: #1 is whether carriers like Comcast can provide their own content and price out competitors. #2 is whether Comcast must build out their network to accommodate the largest bandwidth hog providers.
The liberals pushing network neutrality and you like to talk about issue #1. It is basically a red herring. If you or anyone else doesn't like Comcast pushing their lame content, then you are free to leave. You cannot dictate business practices to Comcast. And as it turns out they want to stay in business and will not provide overpriced lame content contrary to your fairy tale.
Issue #2 is the actual business issue. Comcast does not want to build large pipes to gather streams from Netflix, they want Netflix to pay for that or at least share the cost. If Netflix provides compelling content that Comcast customers want, and Netflix can pony up for the pipes, Comcast will carry it. If not Comcast will build their own streaming video servers into their network. If you don't like what they stream, you can use wireless.
There is another red herring being thrown around which is Comcast wants to control content other than streaming video. That is utter BS, mainly because they cannot. The Chinese do it nationwide other than their network for their elites. The proles accept the censorship. Those that don't want censorship work around it. It is an arms race but the anti-censorship people can always stay ahead.
Net Neutrality will eventually result in FRee Republic being required to post Democrat Underground talking points as “equal time.” It will take a while, but it will happen.