> The popular idea is that it has something to do with, you know, freedom and democracy and all that.In practice, it has more to do with anti-trust. But it's clearly related to Internet freedom as well.
> Big Telco must share the costs of carrying all this new traffic.
No, it's about double dipping. ISPs are already charging their own users for using the network. What they want to do, is to also charge services for reaching the user (or at least not to have problems with interconnection). It's a pure troll tax of the type "because we own the bridge". There is no justification for that.
> Today, picking a side in this debate seems like throwing in with one set of corporate assholes over another.
> But if we entrust Big Tech and Big Telco to preserve those virtues, then we definitely deserve whatever internet we get.
The author contradicts himself. If he doesn't pick the position about Net neutrality, monopolists will do it for him.
