North Pack - 3/31/2010 7:08 AM
It's nothing more than another "government program" - that down the road will lead to a blizzard of new regulations.
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Proposals for network neutrality laws are generally opposed by the cable television and telephone industries, and some network engineers and free-market scholars from the conservative to libertarian, including Christopher Yoo and Adam Thierer. Opponents argue that - (1) Network neutrality regulations severely limit the Internet's usefulness; - (2) network neutrality regulations threaten to set a precedent for even more intrusive regulation of the Internet; - (3) imposing such regulation will chill investment in competitive networks (e.g., wireless broadband) and deny network providers the ability to differentiate their services; and - (4) that network neutrality regulations confuse the unregulated Internet with the highly regulated telecom lines that it has shared with voice and cable customers for most of its history.
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I'd say you should give up, - you come here to intentionally stir things up, and then bellyache after it happens.
1. Yes it will limit the internet usefulness because a lot of small pages will have their bandwidth limited and thus loose viewers, eventually shutting down
2. Net neutrality gives every person the right to unrestricted bandwidth, so they can't be filtered out without court order. How is that regulation any different than giving everyone the right to free speech? Or should only people who can afford free speech have it??
3. Competitive networks, yeah, effectively reducing the internet to a small narrow service like TV. If that's what you want, then god help us.
4. This regulation does not demand restricted content, but the exact contrary.
Let me remind you, if the USA wouldn't have regulations (US constitution) then it would be fair game for anybody who wanted to claim it. Face it, regulations are a part of a society and if you want to live in an anarchy go to Liberia or something, take my word for it...you won't like it there.
Net neutrality is the only thing that keeps the internet from becoming the next TV.
It would really be such a shame to loose a vast portion of US websites who could not compete due to low financial income.