I have absolutely zero faith in the Federal government's ability to do anything honestly and fairly. Zero.
I have absolutely zero faith in telcom/ISP company's ability to do anything honest and fairly. Zero.
If nothing is done about net neutrality then everyone will be paying more money just to access your favorite sites. It's already starting to some extent. Many ISP already charge some services, like Netflix, a "fast lane" tax. If Netflix refuses to pay, the ISPs throttle the speed of all Netflix traffic. Stuff like this will just get worse and worse if nothing is done. The entire internet should be open and free from "fast lane" taxes and, throttling just to earn an extra buck should be outlawed. If it takes turning it into a utility to get this done, then so be it.
I'm sick of seeing republicans claim that this will stifle innovation and will cost consumers more money if it is reclassified. This is exactly what is happening now without net neutrality. ISPs don't want to spend the money to truly upgrade their networks, they'd rather throttle your speed and charge you more for access. This country is severely lagging behind in internet speeds compared to the rest of the world because no one wants to upgrade the networks. They don't want to take the hit on there bottom line to provide consumers a better more fairly priced service. Americans pay more money for internet access but, get much lower speeds the most of the modern world. Why are people okay with this? Netflix has raised their rates 2 times in the past few years all because of the lack of net neutrality laws, the ISPs keep demanding more money form Netflix to keep their "fast lane" open. This kind of stuff needs to be stopped.
How would you guys like it if one day if your ISP decided to tax TideFans or throttle all TideFans traffic to dial-up speeds if you refused to pay (or any other site your enjoy). This has already started to happen. When Comcast first went after Netflix, Netflix tried to fight them but, they throttled their traffic to the point were Netflix wasn't usable for many Comcast customers. Of course, the customers didn't blame Comcast, they blamed Netflix, who eventually caved and it wasn't long after that when Netflix announced their price increase. I'm not okay with this type of practice but, more of it is coming if nothing is done. The internet must remain open and free from ISP manipulation, they should not have a right to determine what is more important on the internet and then charge more for it's access.