senate Bill S. 40
Online Equality: Should For-Pay Internet "Fast Lanes" Be Banned?
Argument in favor
Paid prioritization will fundamentally change how the Internet works. All Internet traffic should be treated equally, not based on how much an online organization can pay.
02/24/2015
"An open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life... We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas."
02/26/2015
This is a no-brainer. The power of the Internet is in being an even and open playing field for communication.
03/12/2015
We need to support net neutrality. Allowing fast lanes on the Internet would only benefit Internet providers.
Argument opposed
The government shouldn't be able to dictate how broadband providers offer services. Putting restrictions on operations will harm the future of innovation and investment in broadband.
05/22/2015
The government needs to step out of regulating the Internet. Don't fix something that's not broken.
05/09/2015
What part of net neutrality are you not getting?. How about we improve the internet infrastructure instead of fighting over the crumbs?
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02/27/2015
This action by the FCC yesterday frightens me more than Obamacare and Immigration. The internet is the last stronghold of freedom of speech left uncontrolled by Federal Government. Congress must act to overturn this.
"An open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life... We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas."
The government needs to step out of regulating the Internet. Don't fix something that's not broken.
This is a no-brainer. The power of the Internet is in being an even and open playing field for communication.
We need to support net neutrality. Allowing fast lanes on the Internet would only benefit Internet providers.
The internet is a public utility. The concept of "fast lanes" would stifle innovation from smaller players, make giant oligarchies, and unfairly harm the consumers ability to access information. Ultimately it can also be used to abuse the availability of information which people ought to know.
This law grants the government no power to monitor our Internet use. It merely prevents companies from privatizing and reserving faster Internet 'lanes' for the affluent few.
You kill Net Neutrality, the internet will never forget and your family name will be tarnished for eternity.
The internet is a service that should be accessible for all to use. Creating fast lanes on the internet makes the internet not equally accessible for all
I've got to get out of here before I set fire to one of these nerds.
The people who are against this are those that think that the 47% are mooching off the government and don't understand how real freedom works.
Yes and Congress should move post haste to forbid FCC handling of the NET.
Look at your internet bill. Do you think you REALLY need to be charged more, to access YouTube or Amazon Prime Video or games?
What part of net neutrality are you not getting?. How about we improve the internet infrastructure instead of fighting over the crumbs?
The Internet is an open form of communication. No government, corporation, or utility should have the power to interfere with that. Utility companies having "Fast-Lanes" available for a higher price is effectively a form of extortion they can use to force people to pay for faster, internet.
This is obviously wrong. I won't waste time explaining it, we all know the facts and what is the right thing to do.