If I hear that net neutrality is about “regulation of the Internet” one more time, I think I am going to scream. Yesterday, National Cable and Telecommunications Association head Kyle McSlarrow testified in front of the Senate Commerce Committee that net neutrality is “a fundamentally stark choice of some regulation of the Internet or no regulation of the Internet.” No Kyle – net neutrality is not about regulating the Internet. The networks, applications and services that make up the Internet are unregulated, which is as it should be. Net neutrality is about regulating the on-ramps to the Internet, and, up until about a year ago, the government regulated the on-ramps to our communications system for about 100 years.
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