I was with you up to the last crazy socialist sentence.
If the newspapers can't survive, (I for one still like reading my daily non-electronic paper), let them die.
ISPs should simply be a pipe. Nothing more, nothing less.
If the newspapers can't survive, (I for one still like reading my daily non-electronic paper), let them die.
ISPs should simply be a pipe. Nothing more, nothing less.
I just think that it's an uneasy "let's keep our eyes closed" arrangement to begin with. If the Telcos want to open their eyes instead, they might find they have a lot more to lose than to gain. Ditching Net Neutrality will cost them a whole lot more than it will gain them, as soon as content providers realise that actually, the providers should be paying them, not the other way around.
I mean, if Telefonica wants to block access to youtube, why should Google stop them? Fine. Block it. And lose 80% of your customers overnight. If Google wanted to play this game, they should be asking Telefonica to pay them money.
It's not a long step from this to having bloggers, newspapers, etc, organise in collectives that can charge telcos for "access to every newspaper on the web" or "every blog on the web".
In the UK you have a choice from a few hundred ISPs, so there is no real monopoly here.