Net Neutrality Bill Means Eight Side Shows and One Useless Study

CAGW* | March 11, 2008

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) has condemned the introduction of the misnamed Internet Freedom Preservation Act, H.R. 5353, by House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Chairman Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Charles Pickering (R-Miss.). The bill would mandate eight Federal Communications Commission hearings and a study of applying net neutrality regulations to high-speed Internet access services. Net neutrality would mandate that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) carry every single piece of content and every service available, regardless of cost. Content providers have expressed concern that ISPs will either block content or create different tiers of online services. Such differential pricing occurs in virtually all forms of commerce, such as charging more for faster delivery of packages by UPS or Federal Express. Should net neutrality become law and traffic on the Internet continue to skyrocket, the delivery of important content, such as medical information, will receive the same treatment as spam. “The introduction of the bill appears to be just another move to provide taxpayer-funded megaphones for the special interest groups promoting so-called net neutrality,” said CCAGW Vice President of Policy David Williams. Read more about net neutrality. http://www.cagw.org/site/R?i=w08I6wYjxJJF_iiUMKOLMA..

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