Net Neutrality is a lie. Keep that in mind. In a much-anticipated move, the Federal Communications Commission today told consumers that the FCC supports Net Neutrality over consumer interests.
The average consumer has always been threatened by the bogus claims about Net Neuttrality because pro-Net Neutrality advocates have lied about what is at stake.
The Internet access providers who have opposed Net Neutrality have done so because they would be required to bear the expense of building out infrastructure without being able to charge the people who actually need and use that additional infrastructure for the costs.
In other words, you and I will have to pay for the construction of new resources we won't use. Most of us are NOT downloading hundreds of megabytes' worth of data every day. Of the people who do download that kind of data (to their home computers), many are doing so illegally. So the Federal Communications Commission has jumped into the argument and said that all American consumers will underwrite improving the technology for illegal file downloads and uploads.
What's more, the FCC has guaranteed that Internet service providers will NOT be able to protect the majority of their customers from bandwidth hogs -- people whose use of resources is so egregious they directly affect the quality of our own Internet use.
Why on Earth would you or any other reasonable person want to support Net Neutrality -- it takes bandwidth away from us, increases our costs, and puts additional profits into the coffers of corporations that don't want to pay for the infrastructure they and their elite clients will benefit from.
You may not like the Republican Party (heck, I'm amazed at some of the stupid things they have tried to pull off over the past couple of years), but they seem to be all that stand between consumers and higher Internet access fees. A Republican Party initiative to stop the FCC may pass if enough Democrats put consumer interests first and support the bill.
We don't need more Net Neutrality lies -- we need to see our government protect our interests.
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