Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, October 25, 2009 5:55:42 PM
For those unfamiliar with what net neutrality is, I’ll try to explain
in a more coherent way. Internet providers like Comcast, Charter, Road
Runner, etc. sell access to the internet through their networks. If you
subscribe to their services, everything you access on the internet
first goes through their private property. Now, theoretically, as it is
their private property, and you’re choosing to pay to use it, they can
make the rules on what you can access. However, historically, they
haven’t. Why? Well, they know that if you can’t access what you want
using their service, you can go find another.
However, there is a single point that overrides both my concerns and the concerns of net neutrality proponents: the
proposed solution is to have the government dictate what private
internet providers can or cannot do with their private property.
This is where the whole concept falls apart. People who don’t trust
corporations instead want to place control over the internet in the
hands of the government. Sound familiar?