That video made absolutely no sense at all.
Net Neutrality does not protect the biggest companies and make them pay less. If you get rid of NN, it gives the oligopoly MORE power to regulate content as they see fit which means competitive companies like Netflix will get slower traffic due to intentional throttling so they can force users to use the company's own VOD services. I work with smaller companies that operate steaming content sites, they will be affected by this more. There aren't many ISPs scattered around the nation, and with these mergers happening, this will only get WORSE if they ban NN.
People get scared when they hear "government regulation" so much they don't realize it means the government is telling these major companies to NOT discriminate bandwidth usage between websites among other things. It's like being scared that the government is regulating your food supply to make sure quality standards are being met. It's paranoid delusional shit. If the lobbyists get their way they'll be able to slow down competitors' content, gain more revenue by charging competitors or customers fees (
http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/24/56504 ... h-isp-toll), and maximize their profits in the end.
All this talk of "innovation" on their end is bullshit. Google Fiber is innovation. They're riding on the coat tails of telephone company cables but they're the ones truly innovating, not whining about it. Pretty soon the oligopoly will start threatening to downsize because "they can't afford to compete" when they'll be downsizing anyway if they get their way because they'll taking advantage of other countries by outsourcing and giving them meager wages. All so they can keep their billions, keep their pot-bellied investors happy, and be able to keep their ranking on the Forbes Top 100 list for another year.
So in short, fuck Comcast. Fuck AT&T. Fuck Charter. Fuck Time Warner. Fuck all these guys.
Those were the days.
