Crawford writes with great feeling and much spunk, but her post doesn’t explain what the so-called “net neutrality” law actually says. Here’s the part I don’t like: “If a broadband network provider prioritizes or offers enhanced quality of service to data of a particular type, it must prioritize or offer enhanced quality of service to all data of that type (regardless of the origin or ownership of such data) without imposing a surcharge or other consideration for such prioritization or enhanced quality of service.”

This criminalizes DiffServ, a real IETF protocol that lots of people use. It’s bad law.

The telcos have an asset they want to extract rent for, but that asset is not the wires - it’s US. We hired them to deliver food and now they want to be able to set the menu.