[njarboe]

Old study and bad title.

Article published May 6th, 2014.

The majority actually don't agree with the question of: "Considering both distributional effects and changes in efficiency, it is a good idea to let companies that send video or other content to consumers pay more to Internet service providers for the right to send that traffic using faster or higher quality service."

The majority are found in the combined groups of Uncertain, Disagree, or Strongly Disagree.

Edit: Reading over the economists' comments it is obvious that many who support the question(are against net neutrality) have no idea how the internet works or the monopoly/duopoly position of most ISPs.

[intended]

There is no strongly disagree, Do note.

Also I don’t think there has been any significant change in the underlying economics of it all, so the positions are still relevant.

[geezerjay]

That question is also very loaded. Paying for higher speeds is only about higher data transfer rates. That doesn't have anything to do with net neutrality as, which in fact only imposes artificial restrictions on cherry-picked aspects affecting data communication. In fact, someone could answer "strongly agree" by interpreting that a company or customer would switch their perfectly neutral internet service for a higher tier one or even invest in building their own network.