Martin Geddes, whose analysis is always crisp and bright and often right says network neutrality is more complicated than Jedi Knights versus Darth Vader and the Imperial Death Stars. He says,
Neutrality is a sign of healthy supply competition and sophisticated
ways of demand expression. It’s an output, not an input. Beware
demanding net neutrality as a blanket principle, rather than a scalpel
to excise particular local anti-competitive acts. Khrushchev declared
the corn harvest was great, too — but it didn’t create the incentives
for more corn to be sown and for the system to succeed on future
iterations. And net neutrality rules are also likely to have the exact
opposite effect of that intended.Net neutrality messes up freedom of contract, freedom of association, and property rights.
I don’t buy it.
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