EntertainmentSave the Internet
Sun, Jan 13 2007The nation's largest telephone and cable companies including AT & T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner, want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won't load at all. Their aim is to reserve express lanes for their own content and services, or those from big corporations that can afford the steep tolls and leave the rest of us on a winding dirt road.
For that reason Net activists have launched a campaign called Save the Internet 
, hoping to build a grass roots groundswell in order to maintain the status quo over network neutrality. It ensures that the public can view the smallest blog just as easily as the largest corporate Web site by preventing Internet companies like Verizon and other from rigging the playing field for only the highest-paying sites.
But what is Network Neutrality? It refers to a principle that underlies the design of the Internet (or any network) as non-selective or "neutral" about the content flowing through it. The idea is that a maximally useful public information network aspires to treat all content, sites, and platforms equally. This allows the network to carry every form of information and support every kind of application.
Isn't the threat to Net Neutrality just hypothetical? Well, see for yourself.
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