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10-23-2009, 05:33 PM #1
Net Neutrality
Network neutrality sounds pretty straight forward, right? You want the Internet to be neutral, as it has been. The opposition is mostly the phone/cable companies (and the politicians they support financially), who are pretty upset that we get all this information and generate all this business over their phone and cable lines. We pay them to access these lines as our service providers, but apparently that's not enough. They want to tier it so that if you want to go to SRP, it will only cost you a little bit -- but if you want to go to YouTube, it'll cost you much more.
Senator McCain, who has referred to himself in the past as "computer illiterate", introduced the Internet Freedom Act. Hey, the Internet should be free -- I'm down with that! Except this act would allow your provider to selectively block and/or slow down Internet content and applications.
Glenn Beck pretty much said that supporters of net neutrality were Marxist and Maoist. The opposition makes it sound like the big bad government is controlling your Internet and that it would be much better in the hands of the free market. Funny thing is that if the service providers also controlled the content, viewing Beck online would probably be much more expensive than viewing the Daily Show.
Anybody opposed to net neutrality here, and if so, why?
Information/sources:
Network neutrality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Computerworld.com
DailyTech.com
DailyFinance.com
Media Matters