Net Neutrality. You either love it, or you hate it. Okay, let me rephrase that, you're either a phone or cable company who loves it, or a paying customer who hates it. Then there are those who just don't get it. His name is Andy Kessler. John Dvorak kindly points his name out in his pcmag.com article this week (http://www.freepress.net/news/30984). Dvorak listed Kessler's blog (http://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/2008/02/wsj-internet-wr.html) regarding net neutrality, or in Kessler's case, "anti-net neutrality", to prove his point about the net. Net neutrality is really a simple concept. In its simplest form, net neutraity is, well, the Internet as we know it. We are allowed to surf any website we wish. And EVERYONE has equal access. Meaning that as long as I have paid my bill, I can surf MSNBC for as long as I like, just like Republicans can spend their afternoons staring at, well, whatever it is Republicans stare at. Broadband carriers cannot restrict access to any website or restrict its speed, just as AT&T cannot tell you to stop calling your mother.
Broadband companies are loving people like Kessler who are believeing the line of bull comping from their PR departments. Kessler believes that the companies are wanting neutrality abolished because they are finding that illegal downloads are sucking up bandwidth. He aslo states that by killing net neutrality, we will open up the ablilty for companies to compete for our business. Did he not realize that due to the FCC relaxing media monopoly rules, all of the companies he's wishing for did, and for some part still do, exist, they have just been swallowed up by the power hungry conglomerates.
Wake up people. It's all a lie. Media conglomerates are just waiting for the American people to believe the line of crap they're doling out. They are counting on American's to be good and loyal citizens who no longer rock the boat but rather graze contently in her green, green pastures, oblivious to the tornados swirling around them threatening their lives.
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