Net Neutrality can preserve the Internet
Donald R. Libey
February 07 2007
When it comes to Net Neutrality, it seems the real issue is money. For the cable and telecom industries, a multi-tiered Internet access speed allows multiple levels of forever-increasing fees to be charged. Next, the big corporations that can afford to pay the highest fees will then dominate the channel. Third, the politicians who wish to control the issue will be the beneficiaries of enormous amounts of money from those corporations, special interests and Internet pipeline providers. The result will be an elitist Internet governed by money, corruption and special interest, and restricted to big corporations.
This will turn the Internet from an entrepreneurial, level playing field of equality to a capital-intensive, tilted playing field of inequality. All of the intangible knowledge and social benefits of the Internet will be relegated to the sluggish backwaters of cyberspace while the beachfront property is populated with the lowest common denominator of p
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