Net Neutrality Explained and Defended in a Doodle-Filled Video by Vi Hart: The Time to Save the Open Web is Now

Nope you’re wrong the video has been ok up on YouTube for ages it’s not made or host­ed here

It’s also called an anal­o­gy ups and usps don’t do that they can’t it’s ille­gal and if they did there would be major out­cry and a swap to oth­er ser­vices but the equiv­a­lent is hap­pen­ing with­in your inter­net cables. And you can’t switch because while there’s AT&T and Ver­i­zon and Com­cast that are each com­pa­nies “com­pet­ing” to be web providers there are very few areas where you’re able to choose between them that’s a Com­cast area or that’s a Ver­i­zon area hap­pens and because no com­pe­ti­tion well they can prac­ti­cal­ly do what they want to the cus­tomer

I am not so sure. If broad­band providers such as Com­cast and Ver­i­zon were going to “make out like ban­dits” with­out net neu­tral­i­ty rules, why do they express­ly sup­port those rules? Here is Com­cast on the issue: “We sup­port per­ma­nent, strong, legal­ly enforce­able net neu­tral­i­ty rules.” And Ver­i­zon: “[W]e sup­port rules that pre­vent providers from inten­tion­al­ly slow­ing down or throt­tling Inter­net traf­fic based on the traffic’s source, des­ti­na­tion or con­tent.” (What the ISPs object to is Title II reg­u­la­tion, but that goes beyond net neu­tral­i­ty.)

There are those who plau­si­bly sug­gest that broad­band providers sup­port net neu­tral­i­ty reg­u­la­tions because those reg­u­la­tions form a bar­ri­er to com­pe­ti­tion, there­by allow­ing incum­bent broad­band providers more, not less, pric­ing pow­er (gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tion almost always pro­tects mar­ket incum­bents who are capa­ble of shoul­der­ing the reg­u­la­to­ry costs, while upstarts can­not). You can read a more detailed counter-argu­ment on the issue of net neu­tral­i­ty here if you are inter­est­ed: https://fee.org/articles/goodbye-net-neutrality-hello-competition/