Poll Says No Voter Support for Net Neutrality

Giants2.0 writes "A survey conducted by the Commerce Committee says that Americans don't know what net neutrality is, and they don't want it. Ars Technica reports that only 7% of respondents had ever heard of net neutrality, but the report questions the fairness of the survey, which was crafted by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation to assess support for the current version of the Telecommunications Act of 2006. The survey suggested to respondents that net neutrality would prevent ISPs from selling faster service or security products, both of which are not true." From the article: "The very brief net neutrality description used by the pollsters is somewhat misleading insofar as it suggests that net neutrality would bar Internet Service Providers from selling faster service than is available today. Strict net neutrality does not concern itself with ultimate transfer speeds available to subscribers, but instead focuses on how different kinds of Internet traffic could be shaped by ISPs for anti-competitive purposes. For instance, strict net neutrality would not prevent an ISP from selling extremely fast 35Mbps connections, but it would prevent ISPs from privileging traffic for their own services for competitive advantage, or degrading the traffic of competing services."

Comments

Push poll

[Red Flayer]

Holy Crap, talk about a push poll:

When pollsters introduced the concept to poll takers, they described it solely as "enhancing Internet neutrality by barring high speed internet providers from offering specialized services like faster speed and increased security for a fee."

The only question I have (for the committee members touting these results) is, "Senator, when did you stop beating your wife?"

Question 1

[Rogerborg]

• Do you think that Ma Bell should be forced to give paedophiles and terrorists full and unfetted access to the AOLnet, so that they can swap their depraved upskirt images of your children, and instructions on how to blow them up?

And that's how you skew a poll. Funny or insightful, I'll take either.

New poll

[smurfsurf]

Nice poll. I believe it should be verified with a second one. I propose a proved question type:

Do you support net neutrality or do you support terrorism and child pornography?

Re:New poll

[neonprimetime]

Do you support net neutrality or do you support terrorism and child pornography?

Can I choose the CowboyNeal option?

Re:I don't know what it is either

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn you, thalidomide!

Re:Let me get this straight

[Digitus1337]

How can anyone have an opinion on something if they don't know what it is?
I don't know, but i'm all for it.

Re:Commercials

[deathy_epl ccs]

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