But that is not what is being said is or will be happening. Bald face lies are being told about how giving every ISP the right to throttle will makes things faster and more fair for everyone. Then rather than admitting there will be winners and losers chosen (IE: Netflix), there are evasions.
Every ISP
already has the right to throttle, there's nothing in the law that prevents it or empowers the Feds to regulate it. And yet they aren't doing it. The only serious attempt by an ISP to violate neutrality was shut down hard by the marketplace. ISPs aren't doing it now, and there's nothing but fear mongering to suggest that they're going to start.
Government-imposed neutrality rules are a solution in search of a problem. And they're dangerous.
I'm worried about the unexplainable stubborn insistence of the FCC to claim authority to regulate the internet. They clearly don't need this power, and we don't need to give them this power, because the internet is not broken in any way that net government-imposed neutrality rules would fix. FCC has been told, over and over again, by both congress and the courts, that they don't have this power, that they're acting illegally. Yet they keep doing it anyway. Yay for out of control government...?
The internet is the most powerful tool the people have for working together outside of government, or for working against the government if/when the need arises. I want to keep the government and their greedy hands as far away from it as possible. Unless someone can prove a real-world, real-time need for government-imposed rules on ISPs, based on more than wild speculation, then I'm against them.
