IANAL or an economist or even an expert on net neutrality
I think net neutrality is great--as the market demands it. I'm not
impressed by legislative attempts to protect it. Any attempts by
government to regulate technology are fraught with misunderstanding
(CAN-SPAM anyone) and prone to become a mess that is irreversible.
(Aren't we still paying for the WWII tax on the phone lines or something
like that?)
The Internet infrastructure being billed by most ISPs to date has no fee
based Quality of Service but that's the way the market allowed it.
There was nothing technical stopping ISP's for charging based on the
type of traffic in the past. They just didn't. Likely because they
know that CUSTOMERS will switch en masse to a competitor as soon as they do.
I wholely disapprove of any attempt by telecomm and cable providers to
push legislation which goes against so called 'net neutrality'.
I also wholely disapprove of attempts by anyone else to push legislation
to protect so called 'net neutrality'.
We have a free market which so far has kept net neutrality on its own.
As long as legislation does not tip the scales--in either direction--it
will continue to do its job.
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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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