Net Neutrality is one of the greatest lies to be perpetrated on the American public. You've been told it would mean fair access for everyone. The truth is that Net Neutrality reduces the costs of making money for large corporations by shifting those costs to American consumers who won't benefit from the technologies that need more infrastructure.

In other words, you and I don't use the Internet enough to justify paying for additional Internet capacity that is only required by a small minority of Internet users -- users who in some cases are engaged in illegal activity.

Today the FCC cheated consumers by supporting the Net Neutrality lie -- forbidding Internet carriers from policing their own networks to ensure that small numbers of users don't steal bandwidth from the rest of us.

There is only so much bandwidth to go around, and while we all enjoy media-rich content on the broadband access that we have, some people enjoy it one or two orders of magnitude beyond what the normal broadband user needs. These people have used the courts to cheat their fellow customers of fair access to the Internet. Now these bandwidth hogs are using the Federal Communications Commission to cheat us again.

The FCC ruling will drive Internet carriers to develop new bandwidth, but since they cannot charge the heavy bandwidth users to pay for the infrastructure upgrades, we'll all have to bear the burden. This FCC ruling is so anti-consumer that it means companies like Google and Amazon, who have long supported the Net Neutrality lie, will be able to roll out highly profitable applications without having to pay the costs of developing the infrastructure to support them.

You and I get stuck with that bill.

A group of Senate Republicans hope to challenge the FCC's ruling through legislation. Although I've not been happy with the Republican Party lately, this is one time they are acting in consumers' best interests. Americans should be contacting their Democratic Senators and Congressional Reps and urging those people to work toward reversing the FCC ruling.

American consumers deserve better than to be forced by their own government to pay for the development of resources they won't use.

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