A Federal Judge today overturned the FCC’s Net Neutrality
rule. Looking over the FoxNew posts, comments are just exploding - calling
everyone Liberals, screaming about excessive Government, and generally blaming
Obama for, well, everything.
Let’s talk a minute to think about this. First all, Net Neutrality is a Government
rule dictating how companies can use their infrastructure. It decrees that they have no control over data
that happens to flow over their networks.
It's just flowing data and the company must remain 'neutral'.
Let’s say Google buys and ISP. With net neutrality stripped away, Google is
free to block traffic to or from Microsoft Bing, Yahoo or any other search
engine that doesn’t provide revenue for the company or is in the company’s best
interest or profitability. Google is now
free to decide how to use the infrastructure it has purchased to best benefit
Google shareholders. If that includes
blocking cheaper prices from a competitive search engine, so be it – all the
better for google.
Clearly, removing Net Neutrality is a pro-business, anti-government
ruling. It’s also the death of the free internet
and the beginning of huge price spikes, it is the ultimate representation of
corporate and market freedoms. So GOP’ers. Know what you’re actually advocating when you
say It’s the fault of those ‘Libs’, when in reality is the Corporations that
own you – and you handed yourselves to them.
Keep your minds open and your wallets closed.
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