An Alternative To Net Neutrality

Net neutrality requires internet service providers to guarantee equal access to all content, without favoring or blocking certain applications or websites. 

Many believe that without it, ISPs would promote traffic from big businesses at the expense of start-ups, thereby stifling innovation and reducing consumer choice. 

But these worries originate from unlikely, potential abuses that run counter to decades of experience with a thriving Internet that didn’t have up-front prohibitions 

...and when remedies already exist for if abuses occur. 

Even in practice, deviations from the principle of net neutrality are made to try to satisfy very different demands. 

Time sensitive businesses like finance companies need the rapid speed that ordinary consumes do not. Tiers of service are no more dangerous than with UPS, FedEx, and the U.S. Post Office. 

Of course, no one wants to give monopoly protection to a few privileged internet service providers. 

The cure, however, isn’t regulation, but increased competition among high-speed providers. 

The ability to switch providers today offers consumers far greater protection than heavy-handed regulation tomorrow.