Arrrrrgh! I can't take it anymore!
This Washington Times anti-net neutrality editorial is so crammed with misinformation, distortions, and outright lies that I don't even know where to start. What kind of freakin' alternate reality is he living in?
This idiot believes network neutrality means that ISPs would have to "charge Microsoft the same price to send broadband-consuming video content as the individual blogger who uses far less band space."
He believes that "network neutrality is a solution to a non-existent problem" - obviously unaware of ISPs which have downgraded or blocked access to competitors or to information they don't want diseminated.
He thinks that "the future of the Internet is in video and voice" and that turning the Internet into something more like cable television is somehow a good thing.
He thinks that network neutrality would have the FCC determining prices; that Google and Amazon are somehow getting a "free ride" - as if they didn't pay for their bandwidth (or as this moron calls it, "band space").
He calls the defeat "free market common sense", but fails to understand that there is not sufficient competition for the free market to work. If there was, we wouldn't be discussing this now. Telcos are acting as if they are a monopoly, because in many cases they are.
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