Has anybody here investigated the implications of net neutrality? I was told today it would affect all small internet business. Is this something us small internet business (signal vendors) owners should be weary of?
If there is an effect on small internet businesses then it should be positive. Basically net neutrality means that everyone’s internet traffic is handled equally.
The fear is that without it big corporations will do deals with ISP’s to give their traffic priority. There have been some cases where Netflix (for example) has reportedly done this. For both sides of the argument, look at the Wikipedia entry.
But we needn’t worry. 
There is a lot more to the subject than just equal traffice lanes. Net Neutrality is whole lot more than just this one issue. This is ’ the’ issue that one side has spent millions making some aware of… they never talk about the other infringements and government control enabled by NN. NN is a two sided sword. Even the WIKI page does not address these other issue IMHO because the WIKI page is biased. Personally I sort of like the idea of the fair traffick lanes… much like airports… we all get the option of using an airline that has just as good or bad of an airport as their smallest competitor…mostly at the same cost per ticket in the case of the Dept.Trans fees/Airport fees. Yet the other issues are full of endless rabbit holes of possilbe government intervention, regulation and power hungry D.C. On balance I would prefer to let the market sort this out through competition but I can see from the lack of interest of the general public that the government borg will get it’s way and eventually sieze control of the internet as that has been inching forward for most of 10 years now. Like everything in the USA, if it’s not on mainstream TV nightly the USA pleibs know nothing about and therefore the government borg will screw it up and then everyone will scream after the fact. Nothing will ever change in the USA, that is the way peeps like it.
A trojan horse for sure. A fix without a problem. Go Big Government!
