The issue is not what NN does, but rather what it *will do*.
Everybody in the regime themselves are talking in terms of the future. They aren’t done yet.
DennisW nailed it with his post 5. Where this is dangerous is when these companies couple with the government, which has a whole different agenda.
The ISPs *may*(and I don’t strongly believe this) have pure intent, to combat those who free-load off of their pipes. But what they’re doing is turning to marxists in order to solve “the problem”.
This is a huge threat to all of our personal liberties, especially considering the marxists in all of their words and writings behind the scenes are making it clear that their real goal is a ploy to attack free speech.
I’ll put it to you like this: People were smart enough to get ahead of Obamacare before it became law, instead of sitting on their laurels and just shrugging their shoulders and doing nothing. Net neutrality is the same kind of threat.
Obamacare now is not as big of a threat as what it will become. Dittos net neutrality. Right now the NN regs are relatively bland, but this is a whole different animal.
If and when the time comes and they successfully silence us all, then you will be powerless to fight back against it.
from wikipedia:
Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers’ access to networks that participate in the internet. Specifically, network neutrality would prevent restrictions on content, sites, platforms, types of equipment that may be attached, and modes of communication.[1][2][3]
Since the early 2000s, advocates of net neutrality and associated rules have raised concerns about the ability of broadband providers to use their last mile infrastructure to block Internet applications and content (e.g. websites, services, and protocols), and even block out competitors. (The term ‘net neutrality’ didn’t come into popular use until several years later, however.) The possibility of regulations designed to mandate the neutrality of the Internet has been subject to fierce debate, especially in the United States.
Neutrality proponents claim that telecom companies seek to impose a tiered service model in order to control the pipeline and thereby remove competition, create artificial scarcity, and oblige subscribers to buy their otherwise uncompetitive services. Many believe net neutrality to be primarily important as a preservation of current freedoms.[4] Vinton Cerf, considered a “father of the Internet” and co-inventor of the Internet Protocol, Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web, and many others have spoken out in favor of network neutrality.[5][6]
Don't look here, where net neutrality (where traffic flows without artificial restriction, the original state of affairs that allowed the Internet to become what it is today) is purposely confused with a host of other issues such as the Fairness Doctrine.