Net neutrality isn’t a Democrat or a Republican issue… it is a fairness issue.
Net neutrality is just plain common sense. You pay for certain bandwidth and/or speed from your carrier, cable/phone/or other provider, and should be able to send, access and/or go wherever you want.
We pay taxes or tolls for our roads. Just think if the transportation department could tell you that only Fords and Toyota’s are NOT allowed on this road, with out their customers paying an additional toll or the manufacturer paying it for you, thereby forcing them to increase the price of their vehicle when they sell it to you…while GM and Honda get to drive on these roads.
Bandwidth/speed is the equivalent of a “weight limit” on the roads. Those who want basic service pay a “normal” license fee and “gas tax” for the use of the roads and drive our cars and SUVs accordingly. Those who need high speed or “heavier truck” loads, pay for more bandwidth or speed to suite their needs.
But I think it’s outrageous for government and/or profit making companies to now come in and argue they should not ONLY charge you for bandwidth, but also charge you extra to use streaming video, VOIP, send attachments or go to certain web pages because they CAN and profit from that. No one should be allowed to charge for the same product (bandwidth) twice, especially since it’s become such a basic part of our everyday lives.
We are paying for certain bandwidth and if our PAID FOR bandwidth can handle the service, let the user use it. NO censorship…NO new taxes…NO new revenue streams at the expense of the consumer.
It only seems logical that if you buy a certain amount of high-speed bandwidth, that you would get to use it any way you want. The hidden implication in AT&T charging you first for the bandwidth and then some one else again for a certain kind of data (content) is that the representation that you are buying the right to move your data at a certain speed is a falsehood. All content is data, and it technically makes no sense to identify one bit of data as Included in the bandwidth you buy and another as not included but due a transmission tax, just because the data is not controlled by the company that sold you the bandwidth.
Net neutrality is not only fair…it makes common sense. We should not let greedy companies profit even more by having government regulate away our current “net neutral” roadways because of their lobbying prowess, power or cash.



