—————This is what “net neutrality” is about.-—————
I understand the argument. The sales pitch for net neutrality is indeed a good one. One that I even supported initially, before the details surfaced.
The problem is the details. With few exceptions, at all levels the details don’t stack up.
When you look at what the FCC officials are saying, they don’t speak the tongue of a regulator which seeks to keep the markets in order. The FCC officials speak the tongue of a totalitarian.
Same thing with the FCC’s preferred advocates. Not innocent bystanders, but directly involved cohorts. Free Press. They are marxists. As are many of the people that the primary leaders of the FCC surround themselves with. Indeed, Obama’s Czar over at the FCC is mark lloyd, who loves Chavez.
The point is this. Net neutrality is sold as something pro freedom.
But the details point to something that is very anti freedom. All of what I’ve said is provable, and has been posted on free republic for anybody to see for themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_service
The concept of universal service appears to have originated with Rowland Hill and the Uniform Penny Post which he introduced in the United Kingdom in 1837. Though Hill never used the term “universal service”, his postal system had the hallmarks of early universal service; postal rates were reduced to uniform rates throughout the nation which were affordable to most Britons, enabled by the postage stamp (first introduced here) and a General Post Office monopoly on mail. Hill’s reforms were quickly adopted by postal authorities worldwide, including the United States Post Office Department (now the United States Postal Service) which already held a monopoly through the Private Express Statutes. The service obligations of USPS under current law are commonly referred to as the “universal service obligation” or “USO”. Universal service is also a key objective of the Universal Postal Union.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Penny_Post
The Uniform Penny Post was a component of the comprehensive reform of the Royal Mail, the UK’s official postal service, that took place in the 19th century. The reforms were a government initiative to eradicate the abuse and corruption of the existing service. Under the reforms, the postal service became a government monopoly, but it also became more accessible to the British population at large through setting a charge of one penny for carriage and delivery between any two places in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland irrespective of distance.[1][2][3]