Quote:Net Neutrality is a pretty important issue.


Did you ever have a 56k modem?  Do you remember how slow it was?  Now imagine that speed halved.  Imagine paying the prices you are paying now, and because Amazon.com didn't pay a toll, your connection is degraded to half of 56k when accessing Amazon.com.

 

Right, except it's much more sinister than that.

 

Amazon will likely pay the toll, but amazon isn't an organization in significant danger from the start.

 

Small players, political organizations, and services like Netflix that directly compete with the Comcasts of the world are the ones in the most danger.

 

Essentially when you don't regulate you're putting Comcast in charge of whether or not anyone else can offer similar service to them through the internet at a reasonable price, and it's something comcast really doesn't want happening.

 

Big business is a parasite on the American economy, big government regulation is the solution to that parasite.

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