I was amazed to see this item over at Boing Boing just now.
Virgin Media, a UK ISP, have a new CEO Neil Berkett, who in an interview with the Royal Television Society’s Television magazine attacked the net neutrality and went as far as to state “this net neutrality thing is a load of bollocks” and that companies that didn’t pay Virgin would be put into internet “bus lanes”.
I’m stunned that any business person would openly state this as an intention and would do so in such a loutish and belligerent manner.
I pay my ISP for a connection to the internet; I expect to be connected to all of the internet equally – I don’t expect them to throttle or accelerate different sites.
If you have an account with Virgin may I humbly suggest you look at moving to another ISP. If you are with another ISP that starts to act in this way publicise it in any way you can and then move to another ISP.
The only way to hurt companies like this is to vote with your feet and kick them in the bottom line.