Nixing Net Neutrality Would Produce More Healthcare.govs

[Commentary] Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is proposing to adopt an online discrimination rule that could hurt government technology in at least three ways:
First, in a two-tiered Internet, sites in the slow lane will load slowly, buffer sporadically, and return errors. Wheeler has proposed letting cable giants “discriminate” so long as they offer sites a “minimum level of access.” The public knows that level as the “slow lane.”

Second, if there are slow, congested lanes, government sites will probably be in them.

Third, if governments do pay cable companies to avoid the slow lane, they simply transfer money from average citizens to cable companies.

[Anmori is a Future Tense fellow at New America]