WaPo on Net Neutrality

The Washington Post offered up their take on the net neutrality debate. No surpirse, the nation’s middle of the road ed board took a middle of the road position on this issue. According to the Post:

These companies have a right to manage their networks; just as important, consumers have a right to know what kind of service they are receiving and whether a particular product or application can be used on their ISPs’ network. Full disclosure by the ISPs of major network management decisions would go a long way toward addressing this conflict.

Really WaPo? So if they tell us they are screwing us, it makes it OK? And if customers are unsatisfied with this level of service, where are they to go? Leave their cable internet provider for the other DSL provider which does the exact same thing? The Post’s logic for defending Comcast’s actions is that “have poured billions of dollars into building their networks.”  Yeah, and they have built that network beneath public streets and land. So how long do we allow them to hold on to their monopoly?

Art Brodsky has a good counter arguement to the Post’s editorial at Publick Knowledge.