Net Neutrality - For or Against?

  As per some of my previous posts:

Google - Do you love or hate the arts? and Independent Content Accessibility - It's always been here

  The latter entry may not be the case for much longer. The FCC have, for some time now, been trying to police the Internet (which was never meant to occur). When the Internet became freely available to Joe Public it was an opportunity to speak to people abroad cheaply, find and research information without leaving the house, and watch cat videos (like this one doing the rounds) while in your underwear. Heck the Internet, thanks to Google maps, can be the visual experience of walking around the racetrack at Monza or walking through Scott Base in Antarctica, things that everyday people might never get the opportunity to do. But with the potential for experiences there is also the potential for self promotion and a possible audience, and this is what I've made an extensive point of previously.

  I'm not going to make the same point, I'm merely going to point out that groups of music artists (Future of Music Coalition & Free Press) have come out in support of what I have been saying and have signed a letter in support of Net Neutrality addressed to Tom Wheeler; who is clearly out of touch with the true nature of what the Internet is and is seemingly pushing the agenda of big businesses. The letter is eloquently written and expresses much of what I've been saying (or trying to say).

Read the article and letter on Pitchfolk.com

 Several Countries have fallen to Internet policing or restrictions, New Zealand is one of the many, and has been for sometime now (thanks to the Warner Brothers Studio deal with the National Government when securing The Hobbit films), but Australia have taken it to a further extreme with new Internet Censorship Laws, which are explained to Ma and Pa as protection for the children, but are clearly an invasion of privacy. Some may say if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear, but what if you are wrongly accused, taken out of context, or just have a warped sense of humour and your comments are taken literally? There are also so many small ways you can infringe on Copyright laws inadvertently, or have your works claimed as plagiarism by someone. What if you create a documentary or short film about a taboo subject or is in some way Anti-Government (real or fictional), what if you write the next Brave New World or 1984? Will censorship prevail and see your work removed? It's a slippery slope really. 

  We all know that the laws we face in day to day life do not work on the Net and are impossible to police on the Internet (so very many aren't even applicable), but wouldn't an Elected Global Governing Body be a better start, and on that commission ACTUAL Internet savvy people would also be beneficial... Instead of lay-people fearing SkyNet (from the Terminator films) as a very real thing and true possibility?

 What do you think? Do you support Net Neutrality?