It shouldn't be up to the individual and profit-seeking ISPs to decide that E911 and tele-surgery packets get priority. If there's a QoS concern for something, and it's deemed important enough, this is a perfectly rational place for regulation to step in and mandate it from every ISP equally.
How would you propose that packets be prioritized? I don't like the idea of the government telling me what packets should be prioritized. And saying that they all need to be treated the same is equally as bad.
But the real issue here is that the need for net neutrality is a symptom and not the root disease.
The disease that needs to be solved is a complete lack of competition in the ISP market. Service providers could differentiate themselves by QoS.
You wouldn't need a net neutrality law if you had competition.
>You wouldn't need a net neutrality law if you had competition
I don’t buy this argument because you not only need competition, you need a market with perfect information. Net neutrality buzzes on in the sidelines. I would wager that the majority of customers would not care if their ISP limited certain types of packets and would not attempt to switch ISPs (that is, if they even can switch).
If a majority of customers wouldn't even care if this happened, then why is it the internet doomsday? Seems like you can't have both sides of the argument. Unless I'm missing your point.
This isn't something as basic as "the right to bear arms." There's a lot of information and this is a fairly dull subject, so the ISPs rely on that to gain support for this.
So you can have net neutrality be removed, and nobody care that it was removed, but still be in a much worse position than before.
Similarly, the PATRIOT act was passed, and "nobody" cared. That doesn't mean that nothing changed.
Oh, no! The point here is that regulating the internet is dangerous – Net Neutrality un-regulates it.
We don't want every administration for the next 100 years to treat the internet as a victim of regulatory abuse, pushing it and pulling it towards their vision of "beautiful".
