My Stance on Net Neutrality and EME DRM

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So with the advent of Net Neutrality legislation and DRM for the Web, I thought I'd share my two cents.

Personally, I'm against forced Net Neutrality if all that's going to happen is there'll be slow lanes for the majority of traffic. If websites start being blocked then I don't consider that Net Neutrality, but instead Net Censorship, and like with China's Internet Firewall I'm heavily against that.

That being said, if subsidized ISPs and telecoms think they can get away with having their lines paid for by taxpayers and won't share their land access rights and infrastructure with other potential ISPs like what Google was going to do with Fiber (and they claimed they would've committed to voluntary Net Neutrality), then I say that those big ISPs need to repay all their subsidies with the increased profits they get from charging extra for bandwidth rights.

For standardized DRM, that's another matter. I'm against it on the grounds that putting it forth goes against the mission statement of the W3C body (the standards organization responsible for this universal DRM). Also, the DMCA makes it illegal to break DRM even if a work is past copyright expiration. I'm more against the DMCA as it is, but having the W3C act against Web users is also frustrating.

Feel free to discuss.