Stupid Shit I Once Wrote: Net Neutrality

You completely misunderstand the situation. The battle to keep the internet neutral started long before Obama supported it. The reason for the movement, is because the giant internet corporations are want to monopolize the flow of information on the internet, preventing them from having to compete with smaller companies, with a lesser bankroll.

Seriously, don’t take my word for it. Do five seconds worth of research on Net Neutrality on a site that has nothing to do with right, OR left wing politics. It becomes much clearer when you remove the politics from the situation.

To make it simpler, if you like the way the internet is now, where you have a choice in the products you consume, the services you subscribe to, and the websites that you frequent, then you are for a neutral internet, even if you don’t realize it.

If Net Neutrality is destroyed, all of that choice goes away. So for example, if Comcast and Time Warner decide they’d like to partner up on a venture that would compete with Netflix and Hulu. Well, Comcast and Time Warner will “own” the internet, so they can throttle the bandwidth to companies that run competing services, making it harder for you to access those sites, so that they can herd you over to their similar service.

Right now, we have a neutral internet. Net Neutrality means, keep our internet access the way it is now, instead of changing it to a tiered subscription, where you have to pay extra to access things like Netflix and Hulu. You’ve seen the way Digital Cable TV is offered, right?

The internet is most of my livelihood. I want it to stay the way it is, so that if I want to frequent a business that’s not backed by a billion dollar corporation, I have the freedom to do so. I do not want the internet to turn into a premium subscription service. I want to have the ability to start a small business on the internet, and have a level playing field among people that have more money than I do. I want to choose which streaming TV and Movie service I prefer to use, based on the selection of the content, not the speed at which I can access each site.

I have a feeling you want most of those things too.

This is from one of my responses on the comments section of a Net Neutrality article on Mediate.com