The Wrong Horse 0
Dick Polman questions Republican tactics on “net neutrality”–that’s the idea that ISP’s should not be able to charge websites for a “fast lane” to their users or otherwise censor or regulate content that they do not like.
Here’s a bit of his reasoning:
I suspect that most of you would cite the companies – the “service providers” who give you the Internet, but who fail to show up at your house when they’re supposed to. Indeed, these companies are widely loathed, as evidenced by their nadir ratings in the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index. Heck, even conservatives who hate “big government” really hate it when their Internet is down and the service guy is AWOL.
Yet these are the companies that Republicans have aligned themselves with. A bad political move.
Republicans claim they are somehow standing up for freedom. In a way, they are; they are standing up for Comcast and Time-Warner and their ilk to have the freedom gouge those who would use the inner webs.
They just can’t help themselves. Siding with big business is what they do.
