While I am certainly not an expert on the issue, I have come to doubt whether "net neutrality" is an unambiguously correct policy goal. This piece from the New York Times sheds considerable light on the debate, and the broadband providers, usually cast as the villains in this morality play, come across as wholly reasonable. Heavy users of limited resources like drinking water or electricity have to pay more for their use. Why shouldn't heavy users of bandwidth?
Monday, June 16, 2008
Doubting Net Neutrality
While I am certainly not an expert on the issue, I have come to doubt whether "net neutrality" is an unambiguously correct policy goal. This piece from the New York Times sheds considerable light on the debate, and the broadband providers, usually cast as the villains in this morality play, come across as wholly reasonable. Heavy users of limited resources like drinking water or electricity have to pay more for their use. Why shouldn't heavy users of bandwidth?
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