AT&T Demonstrates The Value of Net-Neutrality

This weekend the geek press is all over new terms of service AT&T has rolled out which basically say they will cancel your connectivity if you use it to do anything on the net which they deem disparages their company. This is a brilliant example of why we need net-neutrality. It’s like a free-speech protection against companies who would censor us.
I wouldn’t be surprised if similar were in other carriers’ terms of service…Did I mention how much I really love my Verizon FIOS internet service? Seriously it is actually good. It’d be really even more super if Verizon were a fan of network neutrality instead of a tiered internet.
AT&T’s basically given a sweet demonstration of what the lower tiers of a tiered internet will look like. Presumably if you pay enough (eg: corporate customer) and you are disparaging them, they’d prefer to keep your business and thus try to right the problems. But the little guy just looses.