It is all in the definition.
- - Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers' access to networks that participate in the Internet. Specifically, network neutrality would prevent restrictions on content, sites, platforms, types of equipment that may be attached, and modes of communication. - -
There is no denying that the Internet is a great tool for commerce and the exchange of ideas, but why does the internet have to be exempt from all copyright and intellectual property laws?
Forget big businesses, think small. A local reporter spends his entire life dreaming of being an author, so he writes a book on crimes he has covered.
Net neutrality prevents him from bypassing the big tree kill paper publishers and going to an online publisher. Where he can sell it as a download for your favorite e-reader.
Net neutrality says anyone can buy his book and post it for free to the entire world. You just stole that mans life work and he made only a few bucks off it from the first person that bought it.
I completely agree with allowing any legal content, but theft is theft. Even when it is just a collection of bits. The line must be held.
