The Internet and the Right

I am amazed how the right seems to totally miss the debate in Net Neutrality. Totally amazed. Take the Heritage Foundation, allegedly some form of conservative think tank. In a recent piece the author bemoans common carriage by saying:

He showed that earlier this month when — in an unusually deep wade into the decision-making process at the supposedly independent Federal Communications Commission — the president came out four-square in favor of imposing “common carrier,” or public utility, regulation on America’s Internet service providers. ... n spite of its style points, the president’s policy fails on substance. Simply put, regulating the 21st century Internet under common carrier rules designed for railroads in the 19th century simply makes no sense.

First, common carriage goes back some 600 years, not 200 or less. Second common carriage does not demand regulation, just the opposite. It says the carrier must not discriminate. The carrier sets a price for a capacity and that's that!

 As it stands now Comcast sets the conditions and funds its political mouthpiece MSNBC! Are these guys at Heritage out of their minds! They want Comcast to decide what I see. The FCC would not do that under common carriage, just the opposite.

How dumb are some of these people....I forgot it is Washington...dumbness seems to be the condition of entry into the Beltway.

Please folks, try at the very least to understand what you propose!