It has finally come to a head. The main stream media has realized that there is something to this Net Neutrality thing. Recently it was brought up in the House of Commons and the Minister of Industry had a less than confident response.

Instead of my writing here what the story is all about I will let Amber MacArthur do the talking. She does a decent job of describing what Net Neutrality is, however I don’t think that she gets across the implications of “traffic shaping”. The fear is that the large ISPs will start to slow down services that may compete with options that they offer. Basically shutting down the start-ups and not allowing competition. This will lead to more monoplistic tendancies and overall will hurt the internet economy.

For some really good articles on Net Neutrailty and theimplications if the net is not neutral read this and this

The first is from the guy that developed the Internet and the second invented the WWW.