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There's no argument for, it's just big business like Facebook and ISPs wanting to make more money. By making it more expensive for someone to access websites which aren't part of the deal it means anyone starting a new business will struggle to get seen. For example Sky pays other ISPs to put their on demand streaming service on the cheap plan, suddenly consumers will have to decide if they want to pay more to be able to access Netflix instead, they won't and Sky will have a monopoly.
Also. It's massive amounts of bullshit. Things on the internet, I pay an ISP to connect me to that internet, they shouldn't have any say in what and how I access anything that's legal.
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Anyone know anything about the arguments around net neutrality?
If so can someone explain the counter points to this "for" argument :
The internet has moved on to a point where some large companies use a huge amount of bandwidth - Netflix, Skype, Google docs, etc. Internet providers should have the freedom to charge those who use a lot (and make vast profits) more.
Am I being really thick here, but wouldn't business offering products that use lots of bandwidth have to also use lots of bandwidth themselves... which they then have to pay for?