Right now, internet service providers must treat all legal content equally. The incentive for telecom companies to do away with network neutrality is so that certain content providers such as Valve's Steam can be made to pay extra to ensure that their data reaches the consumer reliably. This leads to tiering in which content providers unable to pay up are going to get poor speeds. Currently, your ISP has to treat a Steam download, a Netflix streaming video, instant messaging, or any other sort of data traffic equally. There's no "gov footing" to be paid or "improvements to the net's structure" to be done because this is the way things have always worked.
As for Hands off the Internet, you can see here that it is run by telecom corporations, and it's in their best interests to paint NN in a very poor light.
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Right now, internet service providers must treat all legal content equally. The incentive for telecom companies to do away with network neutrality is so that certain content providers such as Valve's Steam can be made to pay extra to ensure that their data reaches the consumer reliably. This leads to tiering in which content providers unable to pay up are going to get poor speeds. Currently, your ISP has to treat a Steam download, a Netflix streaming video, instant messaging, or any other sort of data traffic equally. There's no "gov footing" to be paid or "improvements to the net's structure" to be done because this is the way things have always worked.
As for Hands off the Internet, you can see here that it is run by telecom corporations, and it's in their best interests to paint NN in a very poor light.
http://handsoff.org/blog/member-organizations
Network neutrality is the current policy in the US, and similar common carrier agreements have been in place since the telegram. It's nothing new.
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