openinternet, how much are you being paid to shill for the telecom companies?
If the telecoms were struggling as it is to maintain a healthy profit margin, that would be reason to consider your point, but as it stands, telecom companies are some of the most profitable in the market today. Rather than re-investing that money in their infrastructure and network, they hire lobbyists to convince the government that things are fine as they are. Net neutrality insures that anyone should be able to use any net-based service regardless of their ISP or service tier. The extent of “regulation” will be the FCC telling companies like Comcast to knock it off when they get caught interfering with the network traffic they’re being paid to carry. It’s simply telling companies to leave the thing alone, the way it is now, and don’t try to make more money by squeezing higher subscription fees out of your customers for the same service they already have. It also insures innovation rather than crippling it by guaranteeing that the giant telecom companies can’t dominate the market si
