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kunash
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Fri May 2nd, 2008 12:34 pm |
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"Net neutrality" is an issue that will shape the future of the Internet. Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. The
Internet has operated according to this neutrality principle since its earliest days. Indeed, it is this neutrality that has allowed many companies, to launch, grow, and innovate. Fundamentally, net neutrality is about equal access to the Internet. The broadband carriers should not be permitted to use their market power to discriminate against competing applications or content. Just as telephone companies are not permitted to tell consumers who they can call or what they can say, broadband carriers should not be allowed to use their market power to control activity online. Today, the
neutrality of the Internet is at stake as the broadband carriers want Congress's permission to determine what content gets to you first and fastest. Put simply, this would fundamentally alter the openness of the Internet.
Without Network Neutrality, your internet service provider would have the right to pick and choose the content that is made available to you on the world wide web. If the cable company providing you access to the internet comes out with their own Google like service, they may just limit your access to their service and block their competitors so you cannot access them, or just make their competitors sites operate so unbearably slow, that you just get tired of using them and settle for the cable companies version of search or social networking, etc.
So what can be done? Spread the word, and inform your fellow forum users about net neutrality, and how it must be safeguarded. What do you all think about this?
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