The Premises of Net Neutrality

by Wayne Crews on May 19, 2014

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…..