A core purpose of NetCompetition.org is to promote a debate of Net neutrality regulation on the merits. SaveTheInternet.com had a recent blog post "Painting over broadband failures with pretty pictures" that prompted me to comment on their blog -- which I have included below:
"If SaveTheInternet followers are truly "open" to diverse points of view that may be different from theirs, I recommend that you consider the mounting evidence that the US is in fact not falling behind but is actually a unique success in promoting facilities-based broadband competition in the world. Please see this link for the four best alternative views on this question:
http://www.precursorblog.com/node/451 .
Let's be clear here. Net neutrality is really a big debate over what economic system can produce the best results for Americans: a free market where consumers get to "vote" many times a day in the marketplace on what they want and don't want; or a more government-run, "Socialized Internet" where bureaucrats slowly deliberate on what technologies consumers should be allowed to get in the future and which company's offering should be favored or disfavored by the government?
This is an exceptionally important debate for the future of our country and our economy. I am amazed at how net neutrality proponents are so fixated on changing the free-market Internet that has been so successful to date and replacing it with a new untested law that puts the government at the center of Internet discourse and commerce and not Americans. Free market competition is the ultimate "grass roots" feedback system!
Scott Cleland
Chairman of NetCompetition.org
an e-forum funded by broadband companies"
