Obama and FCC chairman Julius Genachowski sells out Net Neutrality. Big money has once again paid off our government leaders so they can manipulate the American economy. Genachowski now has the three votes he needed for approval, despite very firm opposition from the two Republicans on the five-member commission. Genachowski’s two fellow Democrats said yesterday they will vote for the rules, even though they consider them too weak. So they admittedly let weak rules into the system. Thanks for protecting the internet for small companies. Thanks for making the rich richer because companies like AT&T can an do hire lobbyists to hound each politician thus corrupting the system.

“The actions by the Federal Communications Commission fall far short of what they could have been,’’ said Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge. “Instead of strong, firm rules providing clear protections, the commission, created a vague and shifting landscape open to interpretation.’’ This means that if Amazon will pay extra then their service will have preference over their competitors.

What this means is that you will have access to your businesses website throttled back to allow greater bandwidth speed for others who pay for the privilege. Many small businesses online depend on high speed connection to their payment service provider and a slow internet will certainly hamper this for them. Having a hierarchical structure applied to the internet will undermine its free and open principles, leaving those without the means to compete with the large companies large bank accounts, left languishing stuck at a lower level of service.

On the other side you will have to pay more for your mobile internet service. It is a big money business decision for a company like Comcast to find those customers most interested in upgrades, whom would have the most to gain by receiving premier service, and then charge for it. Plus then you know they will raise the lower tier service price to help pay for the upgrades to their network. They will be making money left and right.

When Internet activists discovered what was going on inside the Internet business community, many were appalled because the once open borders of the Internet frontier is becoming smaller before their very eyes. The idea that the Internet would be used to discriminate between users, based upon an money, as opposed to first-come, first-serve fairness principles is infuriating to all, except for the firms lobbying for this bill.

A study by Stephen Pociask concluded net neutrality rules would raise the cost of Internet services for consumers and make millions of Americans cancel broadband subscriptions, which would obviously hit lower income households hardest. Mr. Pociask added, ”Given the national commitment to universal broadband service, Internet regulations would drive millions of lower-income Americans offline, which is last thing we should do.”

A man referred to affectionately as the Father of the Internet, Robert Kahn, has delivered a strident argument against “Net Neutrality” legislation. First, Kahn dismissed the phrase “Net Neutrality”, as “a slogan”, and he warns against dogmatic views of the development of the still-young Internet. Virtually all of the early pioneering senior engineers responsible for creating the Internet of today oppose “Neutrality” legislation, it turns out. The so-called “Grandfather of the Internet,” Dave Farber, is a scathing idea of the legislation.

Internet Giant Google, who positioned them as the defenders of net neutrality, has now done a complete 180 on the topic. Instead of promoting net neutrality, they are now saying that it should only apply to wired broadband connections, not wireless. Then Adam Green said “Google, a company that I’ve long admired and currently hold thousands of dollars of stock in, just ‘went evil.”

The bottom line is: When I buy a wireless broadband connection from an ISP, I expect them to deliver whatever speed I pay for. They have no right to say: “Well, we know you have paid for a 6mbit connection, but you are only going to get the full speed when you are visiting Google’s sites. If you want to use Flickr, then we only give you 2mbit.”

The very idea of not having true net neutrality is simply a violation of our internet freedom. I should decide what I want to use my internet connection for. Not big business.

I don’t want my potential success as a new or small company to be limited because some rich company has made a special arrangement with my internet provider. I say let the best service come out on top. That’s what a free market is all about. That’s what net neutrality is all about.

Thanks again Obama for selling the American people out!