Comments on: How I saved the Internet http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2006/06/29/how-i-saved-the-internet/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: James Robertson http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2006/06/29/how-i-saved-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-22732 James Robertson Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:16:23 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2006/06/29/how-i-saved-the-internet/#comment-22732 With any luck, he’ll fail. I’ve outlined my opposition to net neutrality a number of times on my blog, but to summarize:

1) If we get neutrality regulations, it will make the (US based) net a “public utility”

2) Public utilities used for public communications get regulated in the US, period. Think TV and Radio; think “for the children” rules

3) If you think you’ll get neutrality and no content restrictions, I suspect you also think there’s a pony under every large pile of manure.

Seriously – legislated neutrality could be very dangerous. We’ve had a private, limited regulation net for a long time now, and the kinds of actions all the neutrality advocates fear have not happened. It’s not broke; the fix will be a very bad thing.

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