Net Neutrality Is Just "Mumbo Jumbo"

Ergasiophobia writes "It seems the National Cable & Telecommunications Association is spreading a blatant lie in the form of a commercial claiming that the net neutrality act will cost the consumer more and that it is 'bad' for the consumer. This, of course, ignores how much the cable companies will profit from the act's defeat. For some truthful information on the net neutrality act check out savetheinternet.com" This honestly seems too stupid to actually be real. Anyone know for sure?

Text version, because Flash sucks.

[Virak]

Are you google-eyed with confusion over net neutrality? No wonder. It's all just clever mumbo jumbo. Net neutrality is nothing more than a scheme by the multi-billion dollar silicon valley tech companies to get you, the consumer, to pay more for their services. Forget all the mumbo jumbo, net neutrality simply means you pay.

Makes Microsoft's FUD look a bit tame by comparison.

Re:I'm suspicious of net "neutrality".

[Anonymous Coward]

Net neutrality does not prevent ISPs from using QoS. They would still be able to say "That's bittorrent traffic, so we don't have to worry about its latency," but not "Hmm, that is VoIP from Vonage, our competitor. Let's make their VoIP slower than ours."

Re:I'm suspicious of net "neutrality".

[CashCarSTAR]

Net Neutrality would not, at least as its proposed, kill QOS standards. What it would do, would ensure that say if a major ISP gave preferrred access to VoIP or Gaming packets (as latency critical applicaitons), that your small start-up company if in those fields can partake in the high QOS as well.

Re:Real?

[SEWilco]

This honestly seems too stupid to actually be real. Anyone know for sure?

The article says the NCTA did it. Their NCTA Net Neutrality [ncta.com] page includes a link to their "Mumbo Jumbo" ad [ncta.com]. Stupidity left as an exercise for the reader. Oh, and it's in Macromedia Flash format so it is not Real.

Re:What's real?

[arete]

I haven't seen this ad, but seeing it from Comcast wouldn't surprise me in the slightest - they ROUTINELY lie in their advertising. In particular they just make things up about Dish reliability (We've had both Comcast has ALWAYS been much less reliable, AND they routinely screw up scheduling and commercials so the commercial overruns part of the programming) They also always tout how hard it is to install a Dish - when both companies have constantly offered free professional installation to any new customer.

And of course they tout their "better" internet service, when in fact they have the only network LESS reliable than the crappy AT&T DSL here.

In chicagoland our phone (SBC, now AT&T) seems actually worse than cable at the greasing the pockets and buying the regulators bit, but clearly they're both very guilty. One AT&T thing I really love is that they were ordered to let anybody sell phone service and DSL service on their lines... but you can't do BOTH on a line - if you want third party DSL you MUST have AT&T phone. (Excluding dry line services which are thankfully cheaper now, but previously didn't exist as a residential service.)

Re:Real?

[jb.hl.com]

a) The page title is Untitled Page. Shows how much they know about the Internet.
b) I'm so happy I live in the UK, where I'm spared ads like that. Even the worst ads here are nowhere near as dumbed down (that ad talks down to people on so many levels) or expressly politicised as that.

Re:I love the media!

[TheRaven64]

If an advert like that were tried in the UK, the Advertising Standards Agency would be inundated with complaints, would force the ad to be pulled, possibly slap a fine on the advertisers, and the national press would be running front-page stories about the telecoms industry running misleading advertising.

Does the USA not have a similar body?

Re:Real?

[Artanin]

I have personally seen these advertisements on Time Warner cable, after 12:00 am. First time I ever saw it was on Carton Network during adult swim. The advert is black and red and screams "Network Neutrality is Bad for consumers". Thats all it says. Nothing else. They think we are pawns.