"If bandwidth is disproportionately consumed by those who can pay, it would destroy the Internet as a level playing field," said Ben Scott, policy director for the public interest group Free Press.
One question is how much flexibility broadband providers should have to keep their networks running smoothly by ensuring that high-bandwidth applications such as YouTube videos don't hog too much capacity and impede other traffic like e-mail and online searches. In other words, when does legitimate network management cross the line to become discrimination?
When for example the telecoms should be able to return on their investment then invest into more innovation. Profit is always considered discriminating against the poor when in reality the free market is the only proven method capable of job creation which in turn eliminates poverty.
Broadband providers such as AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. argue that after pouring billions of dollars into their networks, they should be able to operate those networks as they see fit. That includes offering premium services over their lines to differentiate themselves from competitors and earn a healthy return on their investments.
It seems a “level playing field” which is the left's code for universal poverty, may be the future of the internet if the Associated Press wants to keep up the communist propaganda making it too difficult for everyday users to find actual unbiased information. Net Neutrality keeps telecoms undervalue by degrading the capacity of the internet as a medium for communications, independent media and free market entrepreneurship, mediums otherwise known as You Tube, eBay or Twitter.
The government can't establish the need for free flow of information and services or the necessity of innovation, often mischaracterized as “greed.” Government is powerless to establish a viable marketplace because the government is always preaching to the people they are terrible unwashed masses who are deserving of their institutionalized poverty because not enough people believe in climate control or whatever juvenile disaster of the week.
So many Americans mistrust their government because bureaucracy is a starved cannibalistic beast fearful of abolishment which must inevitability lend itself to the pastime of consuming our infinitely marketable sovereign rights of freedom and independence. An even playing field is the ultimate lack of compassion and discrimination against the poor. Whom better to serve the marketplace of liberty, innovation decisive in its quest to provide internet access with a variety of competitive connection plans, or Obama and his carnivorous "public options" poverty campaign?
Democrats Pushing Hard for 'Net Neutrality'
