Reply #39: This is a classic freedom versus equality case

[andym]

where government regulation lessens the freedom of the internet providers in order to provide more equal access for everyone.

Conservatives will hate it.

What they don't realize is that ensuring more equal access (less restricted by monetary fragmentation) it also increases individual freedom as well by making information more easy to obtain for everyone, and a more efficient system to boot. The same way the American interstate highway system promotes freedom to move ourselves and products throughout the USA, versus having to pay tolls on every private branch.


The rules the FCC passed are far more in this direction, than in the direction where there be a free-for-all free market approach to the internet.