Those who are against Net Neutrality are the big corporations who are trying to make money out of this whole providing service deal, such as Verizon and AT&T. Basically all the big telecoms in the US. And those who are against it should be practically everyone because its open and free at the moment.
An interesting argument against Net Neutrality comes from David Farber.
"An updated internet could offer a wide range of new and improved services," he told the Washington Post in 2008. "including better security against viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks and zombie computers; services that require high levels of reliability, such as medical monitoring; and those that cannot tolerate network delays, such as voice and streaming video. To provide these services, both the architecture of the Internet and the business models through which services are delivered will probably have to change."
However, Tim Berners-Lee states:
"Control of information is hugely powerful. In the US, the threat is that companies can control what I access for commercial reasons. In China, companies could control what users access for political reasons. Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet."
To step back at look at it from both sides everything really makes sense. Controlling of information does mean you have power, just look at the Nazi Propaganda back in history. But then again having growth is what we are all about in the US. If something is stunting our growth we need to fix the problem and advance on from there. I guess at the end of the day we just have to find a way to compromise between the two situations.
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