First off, much of the info on this issue is static. There are a bunch of Red Herring issues that are brought up, while the guy is actually arguing that we need to worry about private corporations wanting to deny us encryption, and freedoms. His suggestion is that we put the Internet in America fully under government control, under a mountain of laws and then we will be save from violations....
Basically violations by the government will no longer be called violations. They will just be obeying the law. All kinds of internet traffic and piracy will be deemed illegal, and the packets will be stopped, and they will have the total ability to do that.
There will also be billions in new taxes applied to everyone's internet services, so if you are worried about paying more without Net Neutrality, you can be assured that you will absolutely pay more with it. The internet will be far less free, and far more expensive to everyone in America.
It will also benefit big business, and harm small business. It will be harder for smaller ISP's to comply with the mountains of government regulations. Big businesses with big money will also be able to buy favorable outcomes and decisions for themselves because, if you think the control Washington has now over the internet, it will be 10 times more power, and so only those with the means will be able to buy what they want.
Unfortunately there are a lot of very smart useful idiots who are pushing for this. They are naive, and they blindly trust government. They are like zombie drones going around making all the arguments for the big money players who want it to happen. They believe all the articles that big money gets pushed. They don't get the fact that they are just being used.
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Basically violations by the government will no longer be called violations. They will just be obeying the law. All kinds of internet traffic and piracy will be deemed illegal, and the packets will be stopped, and they will have the total ability to do that.
There will also be billions in new taxes applied to everyone's internet services, so if you are worried about paying more without Net Neutrality, you can be assured that you will absolutely pay more with it. The internet will be far less free, and far more expensive to everyone in America.
It will also benefit big business, and harm small business. It will be harder for smaller ISP's to comply with the mountains of government regulations. Big businesses with big money will also be able to buy favorable outcomes and decisions for themselves because, if you think the control Washington has now over the internet, it will be 10 times more power, and so only those with the means will be able to buy what they want.
Unfortunately there are a lot of very smart useful idiots who are pushing for this. They are naive, and they blindly trust government. They are like zombie drones going around making all the arguments for the big money players who want it to happen. They believe all the articles that big money gets pushed. They don't get the fact that they are just being used.
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