Thread: Net Neutrality

As we all know the internet is tubes not trucks.
So now whoever owns the tubes wants to be free and charge based on what the tubes carry.
I remember when i got charged depending on how many bits i sucked from the tubes and i quite liked when i got charged flat rate. Thus if the owners of the tubes didn't have a monopoly i would imagine that the market will decide in favor of the flat rate.
Now they want to charge me based on how the bits are arranged? I see no reason whatsoever for that. 100111010 costs exactly as much as 010110111 to transport to me.

Obama actually is a proponent of network neutrality. I have to admit, hes done some pretty damn cool things, like this and reversing the stem cell ban.

It was my understanding that the tiered structures would also try to get money from the sites themselves, like youtube and ebay would have to pay the ISPs for the amount of traffic they received from the customers. So, there's actually some money out there to fight anti neutrality regualtions, so I think its got a chance of staying around a while.

I'm not surprised the Beck and company propaganda machine is trying to get rid of net neutrality. Unfettered access of information is something his owners don't like people to have.