Vaizey v Huggers: no contest ?

Sounds of either "clarification" or "backtracking" are heard in the Sunday Telegraph from Culture Minister Ed Vaizey, over so-called net neutrality.  He certainly left the impression last week that ISPs might be able to prioritise services that currently come tumbling freely down their broadband pipes.

Now today's version: "People are already entitled to choose the speed of their connection, but we’re not saying one ISP should be able to prioritise one provider’s content over another and I don’t support the commercial decision to downgrade a rivals site.” [Note to Erik Huggers: is there hard evidence that it's already happening ?]

“The marker I wanted to put down is that at the moment I don’t think heavy handed regulation is necessary. I’m saying we’re not going to put regulatory hurdles in the way – the last 20 years have told us not to do that. What I announced as far as I was concerned was business as usual – an important statement that the government was alive to these issues and prepared to intervene in the future. I am absolutely as one with someone like Tim Berners-Lee”.  So that's alright then...