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The point of net neutrality is not to say “F this everything goes!” It’s to keep ISPs from censoring and ruining the internet in favor of their other endeavors. For instance time warner cable and their extreme dislike for freely provided television content on network websites. It’s to keep them from price gouging and making their own rules when they have a monopoly or at best duopoly. Their costs continue to go down, while they say they have to raise prices. You can’t show me numbers that say otherwise unless you lie about it.

Your concerns would be real, the fact that entertainment shouldn’t cause lag in say 911 VOIP calls or something. This is where network administration comes in. I don’t assume there is anything in net neutrality saying network administrators will be a thing of the past.

Use common sense, first of all. I like how you use the argument that we just don’t have the bandwidth for all of these new applications to coexist, yet ISPs say upgrading to DOCSIS 3.0 is pointless because that much bandwidth isn’t needed yet.

I guess the best way to put it, is after some form of net neutrality is passed into law, and the internet and all of our means of communication do not suddenly implode, you will see what I was talking about.

Net Neutrality bickering reminds me of my college days when we would register for classes. Certain types of people would get “priority registration.” Disabled students got first dibs, followed by scholarship athletes, then came the seniors and so on. Took me 5 ½ years to get the classes I needed to graduate. Students always whined about the athletes. But hey, that’s a state school for you. And athletes helped fill the university’s coffers.

In the future you propose I wonder what kind of bits would end up at the top of the food chain? Who would decide that? And how much would it cost to buy your way onto the top of the pyramid? Because that’s what we’re really talking about here isn’t it?

I suppose it’s inevitable that when resources are limited there’s going to be a prioritization process. It just makes me sad to think that kids being born today are going to have their access to information limited by the size of Daddy’s wallet.