Read through the public comments on the FCC's proposed rules on net neutrality and you might have to do a double-take. You might come to the conclusion that Americans care about freedom of speech on the Internet. You might even begin to believe that this country is not nearly as complacent as voting records would have us believe.
"A pay-to-play Internet worries me because new, innovative services that can't afford expensive fees for better service will be less likely to succeed," wrote Kerrin McTernan of North Attleboro in a public comment to the FCC. "The Internet is important to me because, as a young American, I want to know that the future internet will provide ways for people of all different backgrounds to share their innovation, their creativity, and their knowledge."
McTernan is among more than a million people who submitted public comments to the FCC as of Friday about proposed net neutrality regulations. It's the biggest response that the commission has ever received for a policy proposal.
At issue is whether all data should be treated equally by Internet service providers. Net neutrality would ensure that telecom companies can't impose tiered service models that deliver some data fast and free, and other data expensive and slow. A recent appeals court decision threw out the law on net neutrality and kicked the matter back to the FCC, setting up the current state of limbo.
Companies such as Comcast and Verizon claim they don't seek to block or slow content, they just want to provide super-fast service for some data.
But Americans aren't buying it. It seems that the general public can see through a clever marketing trick, such as T-Mobile's recent decision to make music streaming data completely free. Instead of treating all music services equally, T-Mobile decided to make the most popular services free for subscribers.
This is quite a sly move: to pitch a non-neutral Net as a consumer benefit. But I couldn't find one comment on the FCC's website supporting a non-neutral Net. While T-Mobile's new gimmick might save some money for subscribers in the short term, it also prevents any new music streaming service from entering the market to provide more competition. And that's not good for consumers at all.
Just ask Jason Michalak of Charlestown. "I believe a free and open internet are essential to keeping innovation alive in our technology economy," he wrote to the FCC.
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