When I first saw this I thought it was clever and funny, but it then gave me pause because it’s exactly what the upper levels of the telecommunication industry and “big media” would love to force on consumers. It’s just like the ridiculous bundled packages you have to purchase for televison, no matter if your provider is a traditional cable company or satellite (the ability to offer a la cart channels via analog is technically challenging, but with the eventual transition to entirely digital content, will become much easier). Anyway, take this to heart, especially since the FCC recently decided against enforcing network neutrality!
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While I think that the scenario portayed in the picture is pretty horrifying, I think that it could only come true in a world of regulation. When you boil out all of the personal feelings of net neutrality I believe that it comes down to just more government meddling and regulation. Most of us only have one or maybe two options for broadband in any one location. Why is this? It’s because of government regulation. Adding MORE regulation isn’t going to help things. If we had a truly free market in which there was true competition, the telcos would never dream of creating a package similar to the one pictured.
http://www.enigmacurry.com/2007/09/21/net-neutrality-is-bullshit/