Net Neutrality Threatens Promising Future Benefits
Many of the Internet’s founders have come out against Net neutrality, calling it a threat to future innovation.
For example, David Farber at Carnegie Mellon, whom Wired once called “the Paul Revere of the Digital Revolution," has cited the need for greater security and network flexibility. In a letter to Congress, he noted, “The problem is that some of the practices that network neutrality would prohibit could increase the value of the Internet for customers.”
Other notables who have echoed Dr. Farber’s warning about Net neutrality’s threat to innovation include Robert Kahn, co-designer of the TCP/IP system, and Michael Katz, who was Chief Economist at the FCC in the mid-1990s.
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Without Net Neutrality only the ones that already succeeded will succeed. If a ISP can freely block access to smaller sites how is ANYONE else going to thrive? Say before Youtube was bought out by Google all the ISP blocked access to it how would bands like Ok Go and more thrive? How would people find unbiased political videos ? Of course the billion dollar corporations hate net neutrality , because Dailykos maybe viewed more than Fox.