I earlier churned the idea of net neutrality, trying to wrap my head around it since it is the first time I am hearing it. Now, before today, I am watching the news, or checking tweets and I am more keen on knowing what’s happening in Ukraine that seeing another news item on this Net neutrality thing.
Well, as much as I don’t want to die in a nuclear cross fire between global superpowers (…common, you were thinking it…) I also don’t want to pass through the frustration of having to pay for a fast lane just to give my clients and customers a better service. This FCC proposal to establish a fast lane will definitly kill startups… We will have to revert to setting up actual corporations where you have to have the money before even making a cent in a new business, having to pay for what I regard as “overpriced air” mandated by a host of infuriating regulations of which this fast lane proposal is just the beginning of.
Its not only start-ups that will be affected by this, the end-users will too. The number of fast lane Netflix and Hulu subscriber will decrease. As well as the number of these “premium only” services. Companies that still peddle their products and services over the cloud which in my opinion is the future frontier for consuming services, will only provide the best of band-witdth to a few high profile customers while the rest of the world is stuck in 28.8kbs. The Internet as a whole which grew and blossomed as a result of its freedom and freebie driven philosophy, will be a property of a few corporations. The fact that it is a US that is instigating this policy pains me the most, a flaming irony. You talk about land of the free, except the internet! Are you still surprised they, being the most technological and politically advanced country on the planet, don’t have the best internet or telephony services.
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