Making the final turn, we present the penultimate Deadly Sin of Net Neutrality (and we just won a $5 bet that we couldn’t use the word penultimate in this post):

“Net neutrality bans new technology, like smart networks, that could help handle the exponentially increasing amount of traffic on the Internet.”

Why do we need “smart” networks instead of “dumb” pipes? Won’t simply increasing the amount of available bandwidth solve the congestion problems? According to our co-chair, Mike McCurry, not at all:

“For the Broadband Future, we don’t just need more broadband capacity. By itself, capacity will never create a user-friendly Internet.”

Much like constructing new runways at an airport without an air traffic controller would do little to remedy delayed flights, increasing bandwidth without allowing for the technology to differentiate and direct data will do little to manage the exponentially increasing amount of information flowing across the Internet.