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Mike McCurry and Net Neutrality

Adam Green of Moveon.org opens a a post about net neutrality at The Huffington Post by calling out Mike McCurry, who is fronting the "Hands of the Internet" scam. Why do I say scam? Because their message is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," implying that regulation would hurt the Internet. In many cases this is true, but regulation to preserve the Internet's openness, accessibility, and neutrality, Maybe we need a common carrier approach ("undertaking to carry for all people indifferently"), but if the Internet becomes a commercial network with tiered services operated for the benefit of the re-forming telecom monopoly, we may see an end to the explosive innovation of the last decade plus. Web 2.0 may give way to Television 2.0.

jon posted this at 4:42 PM
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