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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