McCain: No Net Neutrality, No Internet Taxes, No Lobbyists?

McCain: No Net Neutrality, No Internet Taxes - VOIP and Telephony:
"Instead of promoting network neutrality laws, a McCain presidency would instead focus on creating open networks that would allow consumers to attach devices and use services of their choice as long as the devices and services do no harm to the network."

Someone's got some 'splainin' to do about why this is bad.

It is a long-standing economic tenet that describes how increases in regulation, mandates, laws and taxes (like Obama wants to do) drive up prices and lower quality, and in a global economy drive business offshore. McCain's policy on taking a hands-off approach is a good one, letting the market decide what's what.

Obama wants net neutrality, which on it's face is good. The bad: Federal law will see to it that you will pay the same amount per month for normal internet access for your family as does the slob down the street who downloads gigabyte upon gigabyte of illegal movies, porn, cracked software, etc, slowing down everyone's connection because he's hogging it. I don't care what he downloads, frankly, I just don't want him interfering with what I and other normal people want to download. So leave the market alone and let the ISPs determine how best to manage their networks. They built them, let them control them. And if customers don't like what they do, they can go elsewhere. However, Obama does not understand this, and is unwittingly acting on behalf of Mr. Slob.

But there's an 800 lb. gorilla not seen, at least recognized, by everyday people: namely, federal regulation. Regulation is like mother's milk to lobbyists; laws determining how an industry can conduct business create the fertile environment where lobbyists thrive. See, the reason there are lobbyists at all is that government regulates so much of everyday life. If there were less regulation, lobbyists would be unnecessary for the industries to influence policy. They wouldn't need to. The industries could lower prices, no longer having the expense associated with influencing policy, such as extraordinary salaries for lobbyists, as well as, ahem, "donations' to politicians.

In short, get government out of any areas possible, and lobbyists go away. But when lobbyists go away, so do opportunities for politicians to line their pockets. Therefore, expect more regulation, at least from the Democrats. It's what they do.

But back to McCain: he's proposing less, not more regulation. And isn't that best for the internet? Leave it alone, let the users make it what it will be, without governmental meddling.