John Dvorak over at MarketWatch has an interesting take on the so-called Net neutrality issue:

We as a nation are, in fact, lagging much of the world in both broadband penetration and access speed. At some point our competitiveness on a global basis will be affected by our failure to keep up with these technologies despite the fact that they were invented by us.

Except in totalitarian regimes where the Net is out-and-out censored, nobody else has this issue on the platter. They are too busy using the Net to its fullest.

Dvorak actually hits on the same key issue as the Communications Workers of America did when it came out opposing this new federal mandate. Although these two are hardly soulmates (politically or in their economic outlooks), it says something that they both cut through the NN fog to see the real issue.