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Editorial: 'Net Neutrality Not a Moral Issue'

By james_fudge

San Francisco Gate (by way of Business Insider) has an interesting editorial that ponders why companies and activists see net neutrality as a moral battle. The author (Henry Blodget) uses the post office (or any other company that ships packages) as a real world example of why the author thinks net neutrality is "ridiculous."

In his example, the author asks readers to imagine if a shipping company was legally prohibited from charging more for delivering some packages sooner than others. He calls this ridiculous, and goes on to point out that, like broadband service providers, those shipping and transport companies have the right to charge whatever they want because they "spent billions of dollars building their transportation networks."

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 09, 2010 (boomark / email).