I'm getting really sick of all of America's shit lately. First we have CISPA, then the whole NSA thing, now this. I'd heard rumours of Verizon trying to do this but I didn't think it was actually being considered. We need to stop "fixing" the middle east and start actually doing something moderately beneficial to the citizens of America. I haven't seen a single thing on the news pertaining to the people rather than the government. When the shit hits the fan it's not really about what the people have to say, it's about who has more money and who can fuck you over quicker.
The thing is that this doesn't just benefit citizens, it benefits tons of businesses too. In fact, it benefits the vast majority of them. Basically, deconstruction of net neutrality just benefits a handful of massive entrenched businesses with deep pockets. Even if you are a raging capitalist that could give two shits citizen non-profit seekers, neutrality is what lets innovation and the next big business get off the ground.
When you look at the software landscape right now and how patents and IP are completely weaponized, and you look at the past behavior of some tech behemoths, it is entirely plausible that carriers won't even need to shakedown business users. Large incumbent players may throw their money at carriers and beg them to take it in order to prioritize their traffic and deliver faster speeds. Essentially the exact same thing as paying to slow your new upstart competitor down. All sorts of scenarios present themselves, -one can only imagine all the abuse that can occur when our communications backbones are 'pay-to-play'.
And yet, I suspect that the worst has yet to come. It's still early in the decade, so I hope things take a turn for the positive without too much fuss, but at this point in time, I just don't see it. Not that I'm saying I predict calamitous social reaction or anything. One thing I would completely love to avoid is when the media decides to get in on the public dissatisfaction. I just know that headlines will be all, "Shock of the Millenium!" and shit.