…Tanya & the gang want *you* to help them stop it happening.

Background: In an interview with the Royal Telvision Society’s Television magazine, Neil Berkett, CEO of Virgin Media said “this net neutrality thing is a load of b****cks”. He confirmed that Virgin Media are already in talks with big-name content providers to get them to cough up more money to have their service provided faster than others.

Full-on protection racket style.

If you can’t understand why Europeans would be upset at a UK ISP’s actions, it is because destroying Net Neutrality hurts *everyones* freedoms on the internet by handing control of the content from you, the public, into the hands of big corporations.

Naturally, Virgin’s customers seem very upset at the prospect, they are already being hit with traffic throttling between 10am and 9pm and the prospect of an unwelcome third party ‘illegally’ spying on their browsing habits in the shape of Phorm.

Quite why Virgin Media seems so hell bent on commercial suicide is anybody’s guess. Perhaps they intend to get out of the broadband market.