MichaelBishop comments on Open Thread: May 2009 - Less Wrong
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What do people here (esp. libertarians) think about (inter)net neutrality?
Seems to me that net neutrality is a great boon to spammers and porn downloaders. People might not like it so much if they discovered that, without net neutrality, they could pay an extra dollar a month and increase their download speed while browsing by a factor of ten.
For a libertarian perspective on these issues see:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/11/hazlett_on_tele.html
"Thomas Hazlett of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a number of key issues in telecommunications and telecommunication policy including net neutrality, FCC policy, and the state of antitrust. Hazlett argues for an emergent, Hayekian approach to policy toward the internet rather than trying to design it from the top down and for an increased use of exchangeable property rights in allocating spectrum."