Perspective of an Opponent

"Why Deregulated Broadband is in the Public Interest"
By Scott Cleland
Published May 3, 2010

According to this author, Scott Cleland, “Keeping broadband deregulated is in the public interest because it:

1) Respects the rule of law, Congress' Constitutional authority to set interstate communications policy, the Constitution's protections, and court precedent.

2) Encourages private investment and innovation.

3) Provides the greatest opportunity for economic growth/prosperity, and job creation.

4) Preserves the stability and continuity of current facilities-based broadband competition policy.

5) Continues Congress' bipartisan Internet policy in law to keep the "competitive free market... Internet... unfettered by Federal... regulation."

6) Keeps the Internet user-centric and highly responsive to user needs, wants and concerns.

7) Encourages public-private cooperation to get broadband to all Americans fastest under the FCC's National Broadband Plan.

8) Averts mandating Title II price-regulation (bit-metering) of Internet traffic for the first time.”

I am in much more agreement with this list, than the list previously provided from the perspective of a proponent of net neutrality. Keeping government regulation out of this Internet is in my opinion, the best way to go about it. Governments always cause more problems than they solve; they complicate issues, and take power away from the people.

After everything I’ve read, and from what I’ve learned, I definitely believe that it is in the best interest of the United States public to oppose net neutrality legislation, at least for the time being. If by chance large media corporations begin to run amuck with the Internet and service and quality decrease immensely, then I guess we can cross the net neutrality bridge at that time. I feel as of right now, trying to implement the net neutrality policy into law is jumping the gun a bit; trying to solve a problem that does not yet exist.