Net neutrality says that your local telco can't (for example) sell you a 1.5Mbps line and throttle it back to 128kbps when you visit the site you want to visit instead of the site the telco wants you to visit.
The GOP is sinking into "crony capitalism" corruption, just as they did on the bankruptcy bill.
It's simple...keep the gubment out of the net.....period. This would be a first step to many more intrusions...the camels nose under the tent!!!!!
Actually it's nothing like that. It has to do with MPLS and QoS and nothing to do with throughput.
I agree with you on the BK bill but not this.
First, cable companies and telco dsl are going to be history as wireless EVDO and then WIMAX networks take hold.
The population will transition from wired to wireless.
So the fight will be over who will control the air, not the wire.
And in a wireless world, we should always have a choice to change carriers and port our IP and email addresses, and our voice numbers if a carrier interferes with our choices.
Here's the next big thing:
http://www.treocentral.com/
In the meantime it is best that the government stay the hell out of putting their nose into our internet affairs.
It hasn't happened yet.A more likely occurrance would be that 8Mbps lines come into common use in this country as in Korea and telecos throttle some lines back to 1.5 Mbps (which would be a win-win thing)
Competition, the perferred solution, exist.
Net neutrality can always be revisted (or existing anti-trust laws can be invoked) if it doesn't work
That's what the moveon.org folks want you to think net neutrality is so they can convince you that this intrusive government regulation of the web is a good idea.
It has nothing to do with your individual 1.5 access. It deals with the core not the edge. The addition of video to the internet is goung to cause all sites to slow down to a crawl for everybody. What the ISPs want to do is get additional revenue from high bandwidth content providers to fund add'l capacity and in exchange put their sites on a "fast lane" using DiffServ and other mechanisms. The dems are trying to block the use of Class of Service treatments in the internet.
The market will take care of all of this without government interference.
IOW, it says that our pristine, fair and speedy federal government should magnanimously ensure that eeeeevil, greedy multinational corporations can't oppressively have control over how they sell and control their own product. Is that what it means?
Sheesh!
When you open your lemonade stand and the government offers to protect your poor, downtrodden customers by regulating your business practices such that you are punished for trying to sell different sized cups at different prices, I'm sure you'll be falling to your knees in gratitude for their gracious and brave actions.