This article misses the entire point. Net neutrality has nothing to do with economic activity and the FCC will likely do very little to monitor, much less control, prices. This is all about control of the political speech of anyone who dare criticize the Left. George Soros did not spend 150 million dollars to make sure that the American people could get cheap Netflix downloads. He and others of his ilk can’t stand the fact that they don’t control speech on the Internet the way that they do in the media and on college campuses.
Soon, you will have to pay $300 for an web site license and register with the Federal Government. Anyone objecting to the “hateful” content of your blog can file a complaint with the FCC and you will be shut down until an investigation can be completed. Investigations will take years.
I think you’re missing the main point. It is not manageable to do that. You really wouldn’t be able to enforce it.
If I have a computer online I can serve content. How can they stop me? If everyone just refused to pay a license they wouldn’t be able to do much about it. How will they physically shut me down? If they really think that they can stop speech they disagree with they’re grossly mistaken.
I can’t see that this won’t be challenged anyway. The Internet is just a bunch of private companies (mainly) joining their networks together. The government doesn’t own it. This intruding on private companies and telling them what they can and can’t do with their own packet routing. It’s ridiculous.
I can imagine anti-obscenity laws used to shut down “hate speech” filled blogs, such as discussing why affirmative action is not working or why race-based preferences for blacks and Hispanics are unfair to Asians and whites.