It has been a good couple of months for net-neutrality supporters. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski is championing the idea and the Democrat-controlled Commission appears likely to commit ink to paper in order to institutionalize neutrality principles.
However, there are some that suggest that barring discrimination at the ISP level can only go so far to ensure that all content and legal activity on the internet remain on equal footing. An article at ars discusses how additional chokepoints exist and how these chokepoints could be manipulated by companies for pecuniary gain. One company well-suited to benefit from such activity? None other than one of the biggest cheerleaders for net-neutrality, search giant Google. Read the article here.
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