RE: Net Neutrality May End In a Few Weeks! An Ideological Struggle At the ISP Level? How About A Steem Powered ISP? :)
Consumers are not already paying for the bandwidth. That's the point NN charges Netflix the same amount as anyone else even though no one comes close to using as much as Netflix. Its not double taxation because ISP's are not government. You keep asking questions starting with "do you want" when I want doesn't matter. This is about free markets vs. government control. I'm Willing to pay whatever the market calls for because that's the moral thing to do. Using government coercion to tell private companies what to charge is immoral and unproductive. Already since 2015 there has been a slump in innovation and internet start ups. I believe if free markets, and a free and open internet. My positions are consistent. Here's an article debunking some of the myths surrounding NN.
http://www.newsweek.com/promoted-content?prx_t=MD8DAAAAAAu9wMA&prx_ro=s
I think you're seriously missing the point that we are all paying for bandwidth on the internet. Including corporations.
Do you have a job? Does your employer have an office? Does that office have an internet connection? They're paying for use of the internet to an ISP.
By the way, ISP simply means Internet Service Provider. I'm not completely sure that you have grasped that concept yet based on your comments. By definition, that means they are providing access to the internet to people who want to consume data from the internet. Data on the internet is consumed with bandwidth.
So if I access Google, I'm using bandwidth on the internet. If I access any webpage, I'm accessing and using bandwidth on the internet. When I "stream" movies or music, I'm consuming bandwidth on the internet. The company providing that content is not pushing bandwidth out into the ether constantly. They are receiving requests, known as packets, over the internet, on their internal servers (not floating off in the interwebs somewhere).
This means when an ISP attempts to charge a corporation for having a large quantity of packets sent to them, and them sending large packets back, that ISP is now DOUBLE CHARGING those corporations. When that happens, it's no longer "the normal cost of business". It's EXTORTION.
Do you work from home, or simply access the internet from your home? Do you pay fo your internet connection? You're paying for your bandwidth, too.
Just some food for thought...