When examining anything, you have to look at the inherently scarce resource.
In this case, it’s “bandwidth”, ie, how much information can be transferred at one time.
Providers are limiting some users of their services in favor of others. Like, the porn downloader my be choked down to a certain bandwidth while the TV streamer would be given all the rest available.
What Obama wants to do is have a government agency determine who gets what. In this case it’s bandwidth. In the case of the ACA, it’s healthcare. In the case of economic policy, it’s money.
In concrete terms — The feds get to decide that Huffpo’s servers connect to the Internet by fiber optics and FR’s servers connect by carrier pigeon. That makes things fair.
Bandwidth is not “scarce.” the backbone is more than adequate, but some companies are trying to limit access to make content providers pay for access to their network.
There is no additional cost to the carrier, but they see popular content providers as a revenue source. Want Netflix on Comcast? Then Netflix will pay an access fee to Comcast for the privilege
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Simple problem. Answer: massive government involvement and regulation without legislative oversight. The government will ensure everyone gets access and the government gets more power plus additional revenue from everyone. Perfect solution. Algore invented the Internet, after all.