Because I have worked in IT for 20 years, occasionally
for the telecom companies we are discussing right now. Those telecom companies do not, in anyway have your best interests at heart. They are concerned, above all else, with profit and shares, like any other business.
The telecom industry. The only people who stand to profit from eliminating net neutrality are the ISPs. When they talk about "consumer choice" they mean your choice to get
tiered packages that resemble cable access. Ajit Pai, the new FCC dude that wants to dismantle the regulations, worked in the high ranks of Verizon.
It was an allusion to the 19th century "closing" of the Western frontier.
You don't
have to do any of that. You can just do the usual call or snailmail. You can send an email. Normal complain-to-your-congressman stuff. This should
not be a partisan issue. It's like... air. We all need the air. The air isn't supporting just the democrats. It's supporting everyone. FFTF and the like are lobbying organizations. Google and other non-ISP tech companies tend to also support net neutrality, because without it, there is no big next thing. Like
@Null was describing--if your
entire internet is Facebook, you cannot try the next big thing. It cannot gain traction. The way that the internet grows and changes effectively stalls out entirely--it is entirely controlled by telecommunications companies that have a money-based interest in nipping competition in the bud.
There is a history of
principle concerning net neutrality. Following from those principles, there have been periodic cases where the FCC has come in to enforce those principles, starting in the early 00's, and those cases have worked their way through the courts, creating precedent.
