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A Simple Description of Net Neutrality and Why It's Important

Net neutrality is simple: we all use the same pipes. The telcos can't mess with what's inside. Everybody gets the same speed and quality of service. To quote from the Daily Show, "It's as though the richer companies get no advantage at all."

There's no development that's so successful that people driven by greed will not try to screw it up. Telcos and their partners pushing pay-for-preference schemes is like reverting to the old days of AT&T.

Save The Internet has a great short video about what's happening and you can help. They stopped one corporate power grab last year and now they're on the offensive, trying to preserve a key design principle that's made the web possible.

Labels: net neutrality

Posted by Mark Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:50:00 PM | permalink |

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A laudable aim, to be sure. But I can't help thinking that it's all an exercise in futility. Perhaps I'm simply feeling über-pessimistic these days....

# posted by  whackamus : 11:26 AM

 

There's enough at stake here in enough industries that I believe the required regulation may get passed. The coalition of people working together to stop the communications companies is pretty large and the consumer support is more than expected.

# posted by  Mark : 2:38 PM

 

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