Taking away the internet's Viriginity

With a title like that I better back it up. It hasn't been very big in the media in the US mainly because it is affecting the internet in Europe. Specifically its Virgin Media's stance on Net Neutrality in Europe. Virgin Media is one of the larger internet providers in Europe and Virign as a international conglomerate has huge amounts of funding to back up any issues it chooses to take a stance on. When you look at the website all of the small squares on the right are links to other people's responses to the Virgin media net neutrality issue. My personal problem with net neutrality lies in how it would really upset the internet's economy. The internet's economy is only just now settling down and it is hard enough supporting personal or commercial websites that don't sell material goods. Advertising fluctuates and something that fluctuates month to month isn't great to depend on for all of your income

Beyond that there are some companies that are battling Net Neutrality in their own way
Comcast was having a hearing on Net Neutrality at Harvard. Specifically FCC was having the hearing to investigate Comcast's practices. So what does Comcast do? They hire people off of the street to "hold" places in line so that their "employees" can attend the hearing. They admit to doing this. Many of Comcast's critics and the general public weren't let in to the hearing because of this practice. Think about the Obama speech, granted this didn't draw as big of a crowd, however it wasn't in as big of an area either. Companies will go to huge lengths to save face as well as get their way. This can blow up in their face, but there will always be loopholes that will be exploited. It all just sickens me. ~~Andrew