Net Neutrality: The Internet's Achilles' Heel

[Commentary] Network neutrality is the Internet's Achilles' heel. 1) If network operators were allowed to slow down or speed up traffic anticompetitively, it could destroy the very fabric of the Internet. 2) The open, unregulated nature of the Internet is also one of its greatest weaknesses. The fact that the Internet is totally neutral is a large part of what creates security vulnerabilities and leads to performance degradation as data goes skipping uncontrolled between networks. That's what so many net neutrality supporters either miss or refuse to acknowledge: the Internet as we know it today isn't all that great. Sure there's been a ton of innovation in this open marketplace, but there's also still a lot of issues with the Internet's performance. While many if not most of these issues stem from the inadequacies of last mile broadband infrastructure, even if we had infinite bandwidth in access networks that won't necessarily fix all of these problems.