Net Neutrality not all it’s cracked up to be.
Since when will we all realize that when the government tries to regulate something anything they screw it up. Be that health care, the automobile industry or now the popular mantra of the technophiles Net Neutrality.
The FCC is currently drafting up these so call net neutrality laws and like all things good intentioned if the government get’s involved they drop the ball or in this case open up huge loopholes that will let ISP’s legally do what the rules where suppose to stop in the first place.
As Richard Esguerra of the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains “Yet now that the FCC has formally issued draft net neutrality regulations, they have a huge copyright loophole in them — a loophole that would theoretically permit Comcast to block BitTorrent just like it did in 2007 — simply by claiming that it was “reasonable network management” intended to “prevent the unlawful transfer of content.” Please read more here.
Basically put ISP’s could still block “peer to peer” traffic just like they do now but thanks to Net Neutrality rules set forth by the government they now could do so legally and you would have no recourse no matter how legitimate your activities may be. Trust me the list of legal activities for peer to peer technologies is endless.
Let’s face facts the entertainment industry lobby has some deep pockets and have for years been trying to halt all types of illegal file sharing (well illegal in their eyes). However, the truth is no matter what anyone may think of this issue the movie industry had record profits last year and even had one movie make two billion world wide. They hardly have an argument that movie piracy is cutting into said profits. So why should our government help them turn ISP’s into copyright cops, a job the ISP don’t want and don’t want to have to pay for, a cost that will be passed down to the consumer, a cost these so called Net Neutrality laws are suppose to help curtail.
We need to let our ISP’s know what we want and how we want it by not giving them our money. We need to end the government controlled monopolies that let cable companies and telcos operate without competition, which my friends is the real root of the problem.
I have a different stance than many in the technological field and feel the net neutrality is a trap, yes ISP’s are evil and greedy. In America we pay to much for bandwidth, have way to many restrictions place on us, and have limited services. That being said I’d rather vote with my pocket book than let the government tell me or my ISP how, when, and where to surf.
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