In his latest column for TIME, Joel Stein tackles the concept of government-mandated Net neutrality:
Senator Al Franken, at the Netroots Nation conference in late July, talked about a dystopian future without Net neutrality: ?How long do you think it will take before the Fox News website loads five times faster than Daily Kos?? Hopefully, this will be happen right away. Fox News should load 20 times faster than Daily Kos, because far more people read it. It?s better for society that millions of people get someplace a little faster while the relatively few Daily Kos readers wait a few seconds. This is why not all roads are the same width. And more people go to the Fox News site because it?s got tons of people reporting, balancing and fairing, whereas two of the contributing editors at Daily Kos are named DarkSyde and Angry Mouse.
Later, Stein captures the essence of the debate:
I believe that as great as the Internet is, it can be better. And we shouldn?t create laws that prevent companies from making it better.
