@Alex
Well written and thought out post.
The words ‘Net Neutrality’ are rarely as well explained or understood. Some people I know who pride themselves on being knowledgeable about all things don’t seem to get it. They speak of letting the free-market decide… But they can’t see that a market is not free when it is monopolies, cooperating oligopolies… led by CEOs and boards that have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profit.
That creates a race to the bottom… A blind dash to see who can invent the best ways to milk us all for more cash flow… And no ideas are really off the table. A corporation doesn’t in all honesty have a conscience… Is more a matter of them having an image to maintain.
There is a lot of mis-undersanding around NN… And I applaud your decision to try to and make it understandable for people who, it seems, don’t grasp the nature and scope of the issue.
Some of us hold onto a utopian dream where the government doesn’t have anything to do with the web, and companies compete on a fair playing field… But it is an impossibility. ( VPN is available… But is yet another expense we can incur to attempt to maintain some privacy)
We must make the best of this world we exist in… And for me, that means supporting Net Neutrality.
I really cannot fathom how anyone can be against NN… Unless it is either a knee jerk reaction to all things painted as government interference, or is a someone with an agenda who stands to profit. Is a real head scratcher. 