{"id":7845,"date":"2017-12-14T23:31:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T05:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=7845"},"modified":"2017-12-15T08:34:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:34:48","slug":"enough-net-neutrality-chicken-littles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2017\/12\/enough-net-neutrality-chicken-littles.html","title":{"rendered":"Enough with the Net Neutrality Chicken Littles!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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So my mom and dad, in their late 70s, have a computer, which mom uses for Facebook, mostly, where she likes 12 Tomatoes recipes and reads about animal shelters and rescue organizations.\u00a0 She has an e-mail account, which is mostly full of coupons and advertisements.\u00a0 What dad does on the computer I don\u2019t quite know, now that he\u2019s stopped the stock trading he used to do.<\/p>\n

Streaming?\u00a0 Netflix?\u00a0 Amazon Prime?\u00a0 Even YouTube is foreign to her, except as a link on Facebook.<\/p>\n

So why should she pay the same for internet service as someone who streams movies day after day, or watches sports or YouTube videos?\u00a0 There\u2019s no reason for it.\u00a0 And don\u2019t tell me that there is no difference in cost to service providers between someone using their service a little or a lot \u2014 even if, at any given point in time, there is no \u201cmeterable\u201d cost in the same way as there would be with electricity or natural gas usage, it is for the heavy users\u2019 benefit that the ISPs are building out their capacity, not to provide Facebook access to senior citizens.<\/p>\n

Which makes me fundamentally sympathetic to the anti- so-called Net Neutrality side.\u00a0 Absent the development of a \u201cmetering\u201d capacity to internet usage (and as far as I am aware, that hasn\u2019t existed since the days of dial-up modems), it seems to be the most feasible way to ensure that users of heavy data, pay for their usage, by having those heavy-data websites pay ISPs to compensate for the costs they generate.<\/p>\n

And, in the end, this isn\u2019t about the Little Guy standing up to Big ISP.\u00a0 This is Big Tech, Big Content Provider, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and the rest of them, suckering internet users into fighting for the business model that advantages them.\u00a0 You think that cable companies are taking advantage of their customers?\u00a0 There are competitors.\u00a0 Around here, we can choose from Comcast, WOW, AT&T, and maybe some others.\u00a0 Sure, we could stand to have more widespread competition among internet providers, but encouraging competition is a better alternative to regulating them as monopolies \u2014 especially while the near-monopolies like Facebook and Google\/Alphabet, which control a massive share of the online advertising revenue<\/a>, themselves go unregulated.<\/p>\n

And what about the fears that Comcast will start censoring our internet access?\u00a0 Given that Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc., already have that power, by their decisions about what\u2019s acceptable and what isn\u2019t, decisions they make on their own and, in other countries, are required to implement to avoid government \u201canti-hate speech\u201d fines, I\u2019m reluctant to take their word for it that it\u2019s not themselves but Comcast that poses the danger.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m sorry, but I don\u2019t have any sympathy for the overblown claims of \u201cthe end of the internet as we know it<\/a>,\u201d or that (as written in anticipation of the FCC decision), \u201cthe internet \u2014 as we know it \u2014 is likely to die Thursday at the hands of the Trump administration<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Dial it back, please, and don\u2019t demand that grandma subsidize your bandwidth, and then let\u2019s talk.<\/p>\n

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