In the electric power industry, if you run an extension
cord across the street to serve another, you go to jail. The local utility has
a protected monopoly. We’ve put most of that “public utility” vision behind us
in communications. Wired and wireless and satellite options abound for Internet
service; we’ll likely see blimps and communications drones, and who knows what
else.
Yet special interests still want the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the content flows and grid
infrastructure, the prices and services of the Internet via something called
net neutrality. They actually are quite open about wanting government regulated
monopoly power.
The Internet as a utility, like the power company. They want speed limits.
We’re nearly a decade into a series of disruptive efforts to
inflict “net neutrality” on the Internet; Neutrality is the
idea that we won’t have access to content where and when and as fast as we want
it without government and special interests controlling the wires……To Read More…..
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