If we allow erosion of the basic principles of a peer agreements at the behest of companies who should be serving us we will ultimately be worse off for it.
Applying artificial limits on the services of a certain type or those provided from certain companies does not improve the service for the end consumer. In effect it's like rolling blackouts - they're an emergency requirement to keep hospitals running in times of insufficient power on the grid - they should *not* be used to control the market in the flow of information that we are paying for.
There are already checks and balances in place to stop abusers of the internet (constant maxed out downloading of illegal videos, for instance), and these are a tiny fraction of Internet users, so there is no case there for imposing QoS type filtering on the rest of us, who just want to use Netflix or other streaming services already targeted in the US.
I just signed a letter to Ed Vaizey, the MP for Culture, Comms and Creative Industries here:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/net-neutrality-protection
If you feel as I do maybe you could do the same.
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