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Maybe you’ve seen this commercial. I’ve seen it running on Cox Cable for a while now. What a bunch of hooey! This commercial is so deceiving and blatantly manipulative that it will probably backfire. This reminds me of lame negative campaign ads during election season that are of bad taste and do more harm than good for the candidate. People are too easily informed these days to fall for this mumbo jumbo!

They try to make you think that Google is going increase your internet bill! Sorry, you don’t pay Google, you pay your ISP, and if they charge you more than you’re more likely to shop around for another provider.

I’m not saying I’m totally for or totally against Net Neutrality as I think both sides have some valid arguments. But this commercial is in such bad taste I think it hurts to discredit those against Net Neutrality and especially the cable providers since they’ve been gleefully airing this commercial for some time now.

For some more info on the Net Neutrality issue see the Wikipedia article about it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality