Net neutrality opponents have apparently gotten up to predicting that net neutrality will cause the Internet to melt down due to traffic overload; for example, here’s an article in Forbes.

Someone has taken the time to research these claims, and finds them hollow:

Why the surge of sky-is-falling rhetoric in the early months of 2007? Three possible explanations include misapplication of anecdotal evidence, the conflation of long-term and short-term views, and political gamesmanship.

— The Future of the Internet: Scare Stories, CIO Insight, By Edward Cone, April 4, 2007

Anyone who’s been on the Internet for a while has seen Imminent Death stories over and over, since about 1974, that is, back in the ARPANET days before the Internet proper even existed. Various opponents of Internet technology or deployment seize on the glitch of the moment and build that molehill into a mountain. Continue reading →