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Two sides of net neutrality
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A flash cartoon from www.internetofthefuture.org describes the Internet of the future as a bigger multilane interstate super information highway for traffic with some lanes like the bus lane for special types of traffic.
Sounds perfect to me.
But, these people compare the Internet with net neutrality as being one big messy one-lane highway. They’re against it.
Another flash cartoon shows how the big Internet companies – Google, Yahoo and Microsoft – want to use a large portion of this new high speed Internet, but make the consumer pay for it. This cartoon also refers to net neutrality as government regulation, with mountains of guidelines and rules.
However, an article from news.com titled, “Net neutrality field in Congress gets crowded” talks about several different ideas.
I don’t see anything in the bureaucratic stuff (Internet Freedom Preservation Act at www.publicknowledge.org/node/371) that says there can’t be traffic lanes built into the network or anything about tons of bureaucratic regulation paperwork. It does say companies cannot play favorites. The Internet was and is suppose to be equal.
The site www.savetheinternet.com offers videos showing how the Internet is today and how it could be if net neutrality didn’t become law. The videos describe a disruption to access to sites and content and refer to a tier service and having to pay more to host sites and services online. These people are for net neutrality.
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Tech Corner
What is net neutrality?
Federal lawmakers will not be adding net neutrality to a bill to regulate broadband service. A Senate committee tie vote of 11-11 on June 28, essentially killed the amendment.
To understand what the new bill without net neutrality could mean to people and businesses, some knowledge of how the Internet works is needed.
Everyone ready for class? When a Web page is visited, the browser sends a request to the Web site and the site sends the browser the page. When the browser asks the Web site for a Web page the request is sent across several different companies' networks. Various different companies own the networks and this is where net neutrality comes into play.
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