Originally Posted by
Bob H in NH
My understanding is net neutraility, is primarily content based. Yes the bandwidth above is involved, but that seems to come from people who are 100% techno-clueless.
Some ISP's will bloke certain stuff. That's one aspect, in my view, if they are private companies, they can block access to whatever they want, you don't like it as a customer, complain and go elsewhere.
There's also the fraction that says government should provide "ratings" to the web content, like movies. TONS of issues with this, not the least of which is web content is replicated world wide and you can't really control it without closing the borders which removes US from the WORLD part of WWW.
There's a huge market in things like parental filters that you can buy and install to filter content. Most web sites also have a rating/classification on them, though not all and not 100% reliable.
It's more "protect people from bad things" pushes that some say the government should do.
that protection crap is just that...a 'nanny mentality'...if the cops are 20 minutes away when the mutants crash your front door, you are your own first line of defense if you have the means to defend yourself...I consider this my method for 'net secrurity as well (antivirus, anti-malware, anti-key=loggers, antispam, firewalls, etc etc etc.....).