Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Jun 2006 11:22 UTC, submitted by Dylan
The US House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it. By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.
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2006-04-07
While I do not like government intervention in our lives, net neutrality is a good idea. We live in a country where capitalism rules, and if more money can be made by shafting over the users you can be sure a company will do it. Case in point; Microsoft. We are going to sell you an OS but the security sucks, so we will also sell you a yearly subscription that might help you keep your system clean. Instead of doing the right thing they would rather make money.
The Telco's aren't going to be any better, unless there is enough diversity out there where no one carrier controls a large chunk of connections and content. But if one company has a bulk of the content what will stop them from charging you to access it? Nothing.