Net Neutrality Not an Optional Feature of Internet

Big Phone Companies like Verizon, AT&T, and etc, are trying to profit gut the Internet. It's a bogus attempt to charge users for things that are already accounted for. They want high-traffic sites like Google and Amazon to pay a premium for the amount of internet-traffic they use. They already pay for their access to the internet, but the big communication companies don't like people making more money than them using "their" internet.

Gigaom.com has a great article about "Net Neutrality":

The Internet does not exist without net neutrality. Consider the misleading assertion that tinkering with network neutrality simply amounts to adding class of service as in the case of air travel or HOV lanes on highways. Network neutrality refers to the uses of the Internet not the quality of access. There already exists an infinite range of classes of service as regards Internet access. End users pay for what they get regarding the performance and capacity of Internet access. Internet content and service providers like Google, Amazon, and Vonage already pay for access to the Internet.

The telco and cable companies have in mind creating another type of customer not a class of service. They want suppliers to pay for the right of transit. It amounts to airlines charging Time Warner for the right of readers to take Time magazine on an airplane. It means charging Ford tolls in addition to drivers for the right of Ford cars to use highways.