True Open Internet- even if it costs more
I'm for open internet as long as its cheap
I dont care about open internet, let ISPs dictate
Free internet to only government sponsored sites
WTF? I dont want it to be like China, and have the internet police...
Ban the internet
Net neutrality – the precursor to net neutrality was the Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860, which simply stated:
…messages received from any individual, company, or corporation, or from any telegraph lines connecting with this line at either of its termini, shall be impartially transmitted in the order of their reception, excepting that the dispatches of the government shall have priority...
—An act to facilitate communication between the Atlantic and Pacific states by electric telegraph, June 16, 1860
The idea that internet communication and access to services should be devoid of any constraints is generally thought to be beneficial. Except if you are Verizon, Comcast or ATT , you might wish to limit access to things that interfere with your business, like Netflix, or Vonage.
My ISP offers me a variety of connections speeds with a price structure that escalates as the bandwidth and speed increases. There are no (generally speaking) restrictions on how I use the web.
Now image they offer me the choice of same bandwidth and speed, at a lower price, with optional pricing if I want to use Facebook, Multiply or Google. Not something I would favor.
As consumers, we should all seek to support true open internet.
There is another reason that we need a true open internet. The internet is one of the most important tools for disseminating information that has ever been created. Before the internet, the news was dictated by the media corporations. If a newspaper or television station did not want their readers or viewers to know a bit of information they simply withheld it. It is hard to censor the internet unless you go to the root; the ISPs and that is what the government wants the power to do. Recently a bill was introduced that would allow the government to create blacklists and ISPs would be forced to put these blacklists in place. This would effectively give the government the power to block sites it did not want the public accessing. Over time it would also create another level of bureaucracy to police the internet looking for objectionable content and blocking sites. In other words, the USA wanted to do the same thing that communist China now does, block content that it finds objectionable from the citizens. The blacklist has been tabled for now, but it will come back in the future.
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