Nobody who would say "we have a perfectly good communications act" has ever tried to read and understand it. It's an antiquated, FDR-era disaster, written by people who thought it was okay for government to set prices for private services. These are the same sort of folks who drove passenger rail in the U.S. out of business through over-regulation,[1] and held-back the development of carriers like UPS and FedEx until transportation sector deregulation.[2] They're the generation that created the taxi monopolies everyone loves to hate.[3]<p>Net neutrality may or may not be a good thing. Title II may even be what's necessary to upend a stagnated telecom market. But it's certainly not a good, modern regulatory infrastructure. Reclassification is at best a hack that's going to have a lot of unintended consequences.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/cpt/2014/07/30/lean-urbanism-needs-lean-rail-transit" rel="nofollow">http://www.theamericanconservative.com/cpt/2014/07/30/lean-u...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_trucking_industry_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_trucking_industr...</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/media/totweb/taxioftomorrow_history_regulationandprosperity.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nyc.gov/html/media/totweb/taxioftomorrow_history_...</a>
I wish more people would understand that net neutrality in it's platonic ideal will be nothing like the net neutrality that meanders through the bowels of the government sausage factory.
I don't believe a bill is possible at this point. Title II (read it, it has a lot of baggage) is feared for a variety of reasons and "Net Neutrality" as a term is so confused that I heard someone argue with a straight face that it would be the Fairness Doctrine[1] for the internet.<p>I would really like a simple technical ruling put into law that talks about peering and traffic shaping. I really wish someone with a bit of legal and technical background wrote a document that could be sent to our Congress People.<p>1) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine</a> I think they were in favor of it. They did seem to be confusing equal time with it. I was flipping channels on SirusXM while driving and couldn't stand more than 5 minutes of it. You shouldn't drive angry and I think they had seen one too many hacker movies.
In case you haven't seen John Oliver's take on Net Neutrality, this video is 13 minutes well spent:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU</a><p>"Tom Wheeler is [like] a dingo"