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| So we're back to this
On the surface I'd say I have generally been for the idea of network neutrality. It's my view that this is what built the internet as many of us knew it.
The minute business finally got off their butts and realized they could make a buck on it, things changed. Now we're using these big pipes and looking for increased volumes of content.
ISPs, carriers like AT&T and Comcast like to take aim at Google as the poster child for what's "wrong" with today's model. Of course the carriers haven't done anything to artificially create a problem...nooo they'd never do that. It's all those nasty content providers. Funny how I don't see too many if any mentions of NBC etc. all the major networks who also stream video - more and moreso. Yea it's all the big bad Google.
We've long had an economy of paying more to get better service, something faster, whatever it may be. So there's something to be said for extending that to internet service, if when I pay for 8Mb service I actually DO get priority over those with a slower service. I can't say I see that happening though.
And if we're expecting every company out there to start paying n ISPs for better service...talk about barriers to entry if you can't afford to do that. The $64k question. Would my blog or the average person's site or some small biz site that isn't streaming content get pushed so far down the ladder that it isn't worth continuing? So it's down to that.
And once again we're back to questions where the answers have no foundation. There's nothing that says all will be fine, no history to prove that, and nothing that says it's by default going to be armageddon.
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