[Straight Vermonter]

I hope that gets here soon. As always, competition is the answer to sort this out.

[palmer]

Sorry about jumping on you earlier with profanity, I got carried away. I have reread the arguments pro and con and I would call this the Netflix bill or Netfilx EO if Obama does it. Primarily it will guarantee that Netflix, Amazon streaming video and a couple of other players like that can stream a ton of content to the ISPs who then stream it to their customers.

Without the NN action by the government, the providers will work out an arrangement to stream the same video content themselves, sending it from their own banks of servers within their network to their customers. They save money by not have big fat pipes to Amazon and Netflix servers. Does it lock out those competitors? Maybe. But those competitors can also offer to put their servers in each ISP's network which makes a lot of sense from a provisioning standpoint.

The rest of the internet's content which uses orders of magnitude less bandwidth will be unaffected. Any attempt to block any content from anywhere can easily be routed around. There is an entire field of internet wizards like the Tor people who do that for a living (it doesn't look like Tor either, it is disguised in whatever streams the censors (Chinese, Arabs, etc) allow.