Who's behind the push for net neutrality?

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The Hill:

Patrick Maines

Feb. 23 2015

 

If "net neutrality" were a life form, it would be classified as a simple organism. And that lack of complexity, as it happens, is its very appeal to certain "progressives," garden-variety regulators and large Internet companies, who see in government regulation of the Internet opportunities to cement and extend their franchises.

 

The brave and gifted Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Ajit Pai, and former Commissioner Robert McDowell, are doing all they can to point out the many already identifiable problems, as well as potential pitfalls, that line the path of this regulatory nightmare. Among those problems are higher user fees to consumers, a slowdown in the rate of investment in broadband infrastructure, regulatory creep and the wrong kind of example to set before foreign dictators and tyrants.

 

Alas, none of this is likely to deter the three Democratic FCC commissioners, as instructed by the White House, from passing this regulation.

 

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Net Neutrality, what could possibly go wrong with the government regulating The Net? I mean the ACA has worked out so great.