It looks obvious

Two opinion columns about Net Neutrality caught my attention. Both opposing legislation that “protect” the Neutrality of the net. But that is basically the only thing common between the two.

The first is from a Blog, that I quoted in the past. The current post , and the link to previous speech , are simply great and I recommend reading them. The second is an opinion column in the Wall Street Journal written by Steve Forbes , and is a great example of the different between the republican’s approach to the market and the libertarian approach.   

Simply put – the libertarian approach seeking liberty and human rights and as a logical conclusion looking for free market. however This is not the approach demonstrated in Steve Forbes’s column. Protecting big corporations, handing them legal protection and subsidies isn’t a free market.

Surprisingly Google, E-Bay and other high-tech companies have become big supporters of this flavor of Net Neutrality; they supposedly fear discrimination from Internet providers. But they have no real evidence to back-up such fears. If problems do arise, then these can be dealt with specifically.

What Forbes fails to mention in his set of argument is that the ISP’s are also content providers. It is not Surprisingly that “Google, E-Bay and other high-tech companies” worried. Their fear that the ISP will create system that favor and discriminate content based on the provider has real basis.  I do believe that the battle to kill such maneuver by the telecom companies should be handle out side of the realm of government, but the worry from the telecom companies isn’t something that someone can just dismiss.