Originally this was to help prevent carrier networks from discriminating against others due to conflicts of interest or the like. Then it molded into a you can't discriminate against certain forms of data transmission (streaming videos, bittorrent, etc.)
True we see a FEW of these cases that quickly was overturned yet we get calls of "Network Neutrality." As if the world was going to end tomorrow. I'd rather not give the FCC more power but that's just me.
In any case has anyone thought that the carrier networks are forced to do bandwidth allocations because there's limited bandwidth? That more and more people are using bittorrent, streaming HD videos and thus creating a bottleneck? That if we forced these carrier networks to treat all traffic as equal they'll change the way they charge us?
In fact I see the carrier networks billing us the same way as cell phone companies do. Give us a set amount of bandwidth and then charge us for going over. In fact this is being talked about already and I'm sure it's in anticipation that this thing will get passed.
How about instead of adding more power to the FCC we instead use some of that "stimulus" money used to "improve" infrastructure and use it build a fiber optic network. How about instead of crying to the government to shake their finger at the carrier company we tell them to use OUR taxes to improve our own country's broadband infrastructure.
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Originally this was to help prevent carrier networks from discriminating against others due to conflicts of interest or the like. Then it molded into a you can't discriminate against certain forms of data transmission (streaming videos, bittorrent, etc.) True we see a FEW of these cases that quickly was overturned yet we get calls of "Network Neutrality." As if the world was going to end tomorrow. I'd rather not give the FCC more power but that's just me. In any case has anyone thought that the carrier networks are forced to do bandwidth allocations because there's limited bandwidth? That more and more people are using bittorrent, streaming HD videos and thus creating a bottleneck? That if we forced these carrier networks to treat all traffic as equal they'll change the way they charge us? In fact I see the carrier networks billing us the same way as cell phone companies do. Give us a set amount of bandwidth and then charge us for going over. In fact this is being talked about already and I'm sure it's in anticipation that this thing will get passed. How about instead of adding more power to the FCC we instead use some of that "stimulus" money used to "improve" infrastructure and use it build a fiber optic network. How about instead of crying to the government to shake their finger at the carrier company we tell them to use OUR taxes to improve our own country's broadband infrastructure.