Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way)

Widespread public sentiment favors the FCC's move to impose rules intended to establish "net neutrality"; an anonymous reader writes with a skeptical viewpoint: "No decent person," write Geoffrey Manne and Ben Sperry in a special issue of Reason, "should be *for* net neutrality." Across the board, the authors write, letting the FCC dictate ISP business practices will result in everything they say they're trying to avoid. For instance, one of the best ways to route around a big firm's brand recognition is to buy special treatment in the form of promotions, product placement and the like (payola, after all, is how rock and roll circumvented major label contempt for the genre). That will almost certainly be forbidden under the FCC's version of neutrality.

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Re:Screw that

[Adriax]

Decent people should be against having control of their own information stream.
Decent people shouldn't trust themselves to have their best interests at heart.
Decent people should submit to obvious superior corporate control.
Are you a decent person citizen?