Why net neutrality is so important
A very compelling argument as to why net neutrality is so important on all levels. Who but the ISPs can enforce something that the judges have had such a hard time understanding? Hopefully we discover the answer before it’s too late.
But telcoms firms are all recipients of invaluable public subsidy in the form of rights of way and other grants that allow them to string their wires over and under our streets and through our homes. You and I can’t go spelunking in the sewers with a spool of cable to wire up our own alternative network. And if the phone companies had to negotiate for every pole, every sewer, every punch-down, every junction box, every road they get to tear up, they’d go broke. All the money in the world couldn’t pay for the access they get for free every day.
