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1. Comment - Net Neutrality Measure Fails in House

   (Jun 9, 2006 - 8:25 PM)

   The sky is always about to fall on somebody.
   
   Instead of demanding that ISPs be required to provide everyone with everything equally how about demanding that you have the freedom to choose whatever ISP plays the game with rules you like? Remember when AOL gave AOL members just what AOL thought was best for them?
   
   AOL made a ton of money until users started fleeing in droves because they wanted access to the entire WWW without AOL's gatekeeping.
   
   I for one would love it if my ISP started putting the brakes on ISPs from China where tons of spam is coming from and where the scummiest of the spammers have their illegal websites hosted. I don't have any sense of urgency about sending my PayPal password to some phishers in China or Rumania so I'd be very happy if my ISP blocked them entirely or at least charged them enough to make my access free of charge.
   
   Freedom of choice for the smallest consumers also requires freedom of choice for large providers.