Net neutrality

А скажите, дорогие друзья, есть ли среди вас противники net neutrality?

Я чего спрашиваю -- прочитал на днях заметку о том, что республиканцы hate net neutrality, и поскольку они сейчас у власти на всех уровнях, net neutrality под угрозой. Правда это или нет про республиканцев, я не знаю, не проверял, решил сразу у читателей спросить, среди которых сторонников республиканцев до черта.

Если кто не знает, что такое net neutrality, то вот достаточно подробная статья на Википедии -- Net neutrality:

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.

A widely cited example of a violation of net neutrality principles was when the Internet service provider Comcast was secretly slowing (colloquially called "throttling") uploads from peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) applications using forged packets. Research suggests that a combination of policy instruments will help realize the range of valued political and economic objectives central to the network neutrality debate. Combined with strong public opinion, this has led some governments to regulate broadband Internet services as a public utility, similar to the way electricity, gas and water supply is regulated, along with limiting providers and regulating the options those providers can offer.

В США ситуация такая:

There has been extensive debate about whether net neutrality should be required by law in the United States. Advocates of net neutrality have raised concerns about the ability of broadband providers to use their "last mile" infrastructure to block Internet applications and content (e.g. websites, services, and protocols), and even to block out competitors. Opponents claim net-neutrality regulations are unncessary and deter investment into improving broadband infrastructure.

On 26 February 2015, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled in favor of net neutrality by reclassifying broadband access as a telecommunications service and thus applying Title II (common carrier) of the Communications Act of 1934 as well as section 706 of the Telecommunications act of 1996 to Internet service providers. On 12 March 2015, the FCC released the specific details of its new net neutrality rule.[82][83][84] And on 13 April 2015, the FCC published the final rule on its new regulations. The rule took effect on June 12, 2015.

In 2015, the United States Telecom Association (a trade association representing large telecom companies) filed a lawsuit against the FCC challenging the net neutrality rule. The US Telecom industry argued that “the FCC reclassifying broadband carriers as ‘common carriers’ is an overreach on the part of the FCC”. The challenge sparked "a huge legal battle as cable, telecom and wireless internet providers sued to overturn regulations that they said went far beyond the F.C.C.'s authority and would hurt their businesses." In June 2016, in an 184-page ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld, by a 2-1 vote, the FCC's net neutrality rules and the FCC's determination that broadband access is a public utility, rather than a luxury. AT&T and the telecom industry said that they would seek to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.

Угроза net neutrality -- это, конечно, далеко не главная из опасностей при Трампе. Но, все же, было бы очень обидно, если бы net neutrality пала. Мне так кажется. Против net neutrality я вижу только аргумент "we don't need no regulations".

Но, может, есть и другие мнения?