My stance on Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality is the concept that all data that travels across the Internet is to be treated equally, regardless of the content of that data and regardless of source. No more, no less. It's a simple concept, despite what opponents of it may try to claim.
Personally, I feel that this concept is one that needs to be codified into law. Right now, it is merely a non-legal, de facto standard. A suggestion, at best, which is increasingly in danger of being ignored by big corporations that would like to see it disappear.
However, if and when it is made into law, it needs to be done so directly, with no bullshit. No exceptions, no loopholes, and no multi-thousand pages worth of equivocation on the issue.
I do not think that Verizon and Google, or any other big company with a potential interest in seeing this concept wither and die, should be making "suggestions" or "proposals" to the government about this. We have already seen what happens when the regulated are allowed to write the laws pertaining to their own regulation (or, more accurately, the lack thereof).
And, lastly, I think that anyone claiming that any attempt at legalization and enforcement of Net Neutrality will somehow lead to total government control and censorship of the Internet (and there are apparently quite a few out there who believe this, unfortunately) is absolutely nothing more than a retarded, ludicrous, raving lunatic.
Personally, I feel that this concept is one that needs to be codified into law. Right now, it is merely a non-legal, de facto standard. A suggestion, at best, which is increasingly in danger of being ignored by big corporations that would like to see it disappear.
However, if and when it is made into law, it needs to be done so directly, with no bullshit. No exceptions, no loopholes, and no multi-thousand pages worth of equivocation on the issue.
I do not think that Verizon and Google, or any other big company with a potential interest in seeing this concept wither and die, should be making "suggestions" or "proposals" to the government about this. We have already seen what happens when the regulated are allowed to write the laws pertaining to their own regulation (or, more accurately, the lack thereof).
And, lastly, I think that anyone claiming that any attempt at legalization and enforcement of Net Neutrality will somehow lead to total government control and censorship of the Internet (and there are apparently quite a few out there who believe this, unfortunately) is absolutely nothing more than a retarded, ludicrous, raving lunatic.