Tomorrow: FCC takes the reins of the internet

  For those of us non-techies on the outside looking in, the question of net neutrality has been a complex and confusing one. Reading both sides of the issue hasn't yielded much in the way of enlightenment, except that the government wants the amount of bandwidth controlled and a tiered system of pricing put into place. How this will affect the average consumer is hard to grasp, other than the government, as usual, wants to control more of our lives and somehow we always end up paying more.
  One of the FCC commissioners has written an article in the WSJ today:

Analysts and broadband companies of all sizes have told the FCC that new rules are likely to have the perverse effect of inhibiting capital investment, deterring innovation, raising operating costs, and ultimately increasing consumer prices. Others maintain that the new rules will kill jobs. By moving forward with Internet rules anyway, the FCC is not living up to its promise of being "data driven" in its pursuit of mandates—i.e., listening to the needs of the market.

  Red State wonders why we should trust the government with anything considering what they've done with what we've given them so far. 
  Some people say this is the end of the internet.
  Meanwhile, Chavez seeks to strictly regulate the internet in Venezuela.
  Stop the flow of information. That's what fascists try to do. Stop the flow of information until all we hear is what they want.