Net Neutrality—and Obama's Scheme for the Internet—Are Lousy Ideas

Net Neutrality—and Obama's Scheme for the Internet—Are Lousy Ideas - Reason.com:
"The nightmare outcome? 
The Internet becomes more expensive and less convenient for consumers, and it becomes harder for small content producers to compete.
That's what might conceivably happen.
Here's what actually is happening, right now:
We know, indisputably, thanks to the heroic disclosures by Edward Snowden and the tireless work of journalists like Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, that the federal government is attempting to use the Internet to build a global Panopticon, capable of accessing everyone's personal information at any time for any reason or no reason.
We also know that one way the government is trying to accomplish this is by securing the cooperation of private companies.
You can attempt to thwart surveillance by using encryption—but encryption only protects data in transit.
Once it's received and decrypted, it's an open book.
If the government can compromise private data custodians, encryption loses a lot of its efficacy.
This is exactly what happened to Google, which had its internal traffic bugged by the NSA."