Say Goodbye To "Net Neutrality" – New FCC Proposal Will Permit Discrimination Of Web Content | Zero Hedge
Posted by UncommonSense 10 years, 10 months ago to Politics
Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): Net Neutrality ensures the "Little Guy ~ small businesses, everyday people who's views do not match the gov't are not able to get their word out equally thanks to the companies with deep pockets 7 of course political connections to have most of the internet bandwidth.
What the real issue is that some services require uninterrupted bandwidth and are willing to pay for that, such as Netflix. Net Neutrality proponents want to deny the property rights of the ISP and force them to not be able to sell their bandwidth. While no doubt large companies may try to game this - Google has already been caught providing biased search results - for instance in the last presidential campaign. But if the FCC gets involved, it will mean the government decides who goes to the top of the search engines, which websites will be banished to the bottom. ISPs are fairly simple to setup and more and more options are becoming available. But if the FCC limits how they can use their property, we will see fewer people being willing to invest in this area. The answer is never to have the government decide fairness and ignore property rights, which is what Net Neutrality is about.
Perhaps another net provider can offer a service with guaranteed net neutrality and appeal to a different market.
This whole thing is a solution for which there is no problem. All the complaints are hypothetical. This is a manufactured problem, designed to let the FCC take over the Internet and impose the Fairness Doctrine on it.