Value. Value. Value. It is ironic that in the early arguments for net neutrality, the battle cry was, “Say no to partnerships between content providers and the owners of the pipes.”
Net neutrality proponents were not interested in the strategic partnerships that would allow, for example, poorly capitalized minority-owned content providers to have their traffic prioritized. Under such a scenario, a content provider exhibiting content that targets a sought after market could find themselves avoiding the very scenario Ms. Harris describes.
Ms. Harris comes at this with the not-for-profit, give me attitude that is anathema to our free market system. I see an opportunity for entrepreneurs to build the relationships necessary for carving out a space in the Internet’s new frontier.
