I signed this White House petition and encourage you to share and do the same: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reclassify-internet-broadband-providers-common-carriers/4MrqLTlV
The FCC is proposing changes that lets Comcast charge Netflix more money to provide faster delivery of its content. That means Comcast gets to charge us users to access the internet, and also change internet companies to use the “fast lane” and get their content to us at good speeds. Netflix will probably survive, and just raise prices a bit. Same with the other big companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon – they will all silently pay the new fees, and life will go on.
But the next time someone invents a cool new things for the internet, no one will use it because it will be too slow. Innovation online will slow down – because Comcast needs to take their cut – and that cool new startup probably won’t be able to afford it.
This is not hypothetical. Comcast was already putting pressure on Netflix to give them money, and have been actively slowing down Netflix downloads to Comcast subscribers. Netflix recently signed a deal with Comcast, paying them to basically stop it. You can see here how big an impact it had. Take a look at the graph, guess who else is asking Netflix to pay them? Yep, ATT and Verizon.
http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/this-hilarious-graph-of-netflix-speeds-shows-the-importance-of-net-neutrality/
This is not just about Netflix. They can afford to pay this. This is about the next Netflix that doesn’t exist yet.
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