Plenty of key figures in the technology and political world have misrepresented what net neutrality is and put their own spin on it, like Sen. Ted Cruz and more recently BlackBerry CEO John Chen.

In a blog spot on the subject, Chen claimed that while BlackBerry supports net neutrality, he would like to see the same regulation apply to app developers, forcing "platform agnostic" behavior.

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The comment raised a few eyebrows, especially since the company to benefit most from this new type of neutrality would be BlackBerry, lacking thousands of applications against its competitors Android and iOS.

Chen claims that due to BlackBerry Messenger launching on Android and iOS, other services should be cross-platform like iMessage. The BlackBerry CEO also believes apps like Netflix should automatically port its service over to BB10.

BBM did receive a lot of attention when it finally hit Android and iOS, potentially resulting in more than 100 million users. This might have saved the service, but now Chen is using it as a catalyst for debate over whether other developers should go platform agnostic or not.

There are plenty of differences between broadband companies treating all traffic the same and app developers treating all platforms the same, the first being changes in coding language forcing developers to learn the platform.

The scale of platforms also makes it a completely different discussion; iOS and Android have hundreds of millions of users, but BlackBerry and Windows Phone still lag behind at 1 percent and 2.7 percent global adoption.

If the rumors on Samsung acquiring BlackBerry for $7.5 billion are true, perhaps Chen will not have to be bothered about lack of apps, since Samsung will most likely kit all of BlackBerry's smartphones with Android OS.

TagsNet Neutrality, Blackberry, John Chen, app development, BB10