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Net Neutrality or Not?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hoping-for-alternate-history dept.

Reverse Gear writes "CNN has two commentaries about net neutrality with quite opposing viewpoints. Craig Newmark discusses how the legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would efficiently remove net neutrality, while Mike McCurry writes about how the big companies should pay their fair share for the physical upgrade of the internet. From Newmark's commentary: 'Telecommunication companies already control the pipes that carry the Internet into your home. Now they want control which sites you visit and how you experience them. They would provide privileged access for themselves and their preferred partners while charging other businesses for varying levels of service.'"

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  1. Pay their fair share? by Twiceblessedman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Greedy telco's, the big companies already pay their portion. I pay for my bandwidth, google pays for theirs.

  2. Rotten either way by petrus4 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The government should have no say in what happens to the Internet, but big business shouldn't either.

    Commercialism has been nothing but a plague to the Internet...the only thing it has done is allow that segment of the population that are likely to render the rest of us extinct to discover one more thing to screw up, in their suicidal quest for the increased bottom line. Now, to top it off, we're having to rely on the utterly corrupt, craven, senile geriatrics of the American legislative branch to prevent their fellow parasitic vermin from destroying the net completely. Why do I not feel more optimistic?

    The Internet was initially developed by infinitely more redeemable human beings than anyone in either the American government or corporate world. The future of something that has been developed by those who are self-aware should not be decided by those who are not. As much as the Internet means to me, it pains me to see its' future being decided by groups which I fervently wish did not exist in the first place.

    For those unutterably wretched human beings whose lives also revolve entirely and exclusively around money, the rest of us are waiting patiently for you to grow up and recover from your sickness. Your addiction is in need of rapid treatment...if it is not treated soon, you may well end up destroying the rest of us along with you.