Policy Wonk Castigates Net Neutrality

An anonymous reader writes "Tom Giovanetti, president of the Dallas, Texas based public policy think tank Institute for Policy Innovation envisions a chaotic world as a result of Net Neutrality. He says a flood of undiscriminated traffic to and from Youtube, Coldplay, and Victoria's Secret will bring down the Internet, leading to failures of IPTV, VOIP, and emergency services which depend on VOIP. Is he right or wrong?." From the article: "... government should be about fostering a dynamic and risk-taking economy, not preserving the certainty of anyone's business models. Net neutrality regulations would severely restrict broadband providers' right to enter into contracts and to try new business models while protecting the business models of Google and Ebay." Compare this with George Ou's commentary on this subject from yesterday.

Wonk?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sick of the British-Centric slant slashdot insists upon.

Now good day!

Re:MY HEAD ACHES NOW

[dotpavan]

This article was submitted about a month back.. but due to "differential treatment" of packets.. made it late.

Re:Most emergency services also have radio.

[DAldredge]

Hey! Thats Verisons staff schedule

24 minutes per hour
7 hours per day
52 days per year

Re:Justifiable Reasoning

[Khammurabi]

I think Tom Giovanetti's reasoning is very justifiable. Often times as humans we are quick to criticize, and very hypocrytical.

Oh, I agree completely. I don't think there's any reason to think the phone company will exploit their monopoly [wikipedia.org]. No reason at all...

Now, I'm not saying that there aren't valid reasons for either or both, but it's a rhetorical question that I think we should all be asking ourselves.

But if I ask myself for an answer to the question, it's no longer rhetorical. Must... not... answer... (*head explodes*)

Seriously though, this internet thing was a bad idea from the start. It's a good thing that a tiered system can develop to prune the chaff of the internet away. In an ideal world, the internet would consist of MSN, Fox News and Ann Coulter praising blogs. None of this slashdot, dailykos, or other free thinking blog crap. MySpace would still exist, just so law enforcement can catch all those idiot liberals who post their crime exploits on there. (Wish they'd do something about the color schemes though.) People nowadays have too much freedom anyways, and should just do what they're told. Friggin liberals.

[end sarcasm]

Sorry, couldn't resist.