Net Neutrality
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The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) wants to give Internet providers such as AT&T, Qwest, Verizon, Comcast, Virgin Media, and many others the right to control what websites people can visit but that was not what the internet was made for. Net Neutrality simply means no discrimination. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from blocking, speeding up or slowing down Web content based on its source, ownership or destination. If you wanna stop big corporations from running what we can or cannot see then please come tell the FCC your feelings.
Net Neutrality For All
For all you Loli lovers this should be very important to you because that is already a taboo issue so please help us keep the Internet free for everyone.
Net Neutrality For All
For all you Loli lovers this should be very important to you because that is already a taboo issue so please help us keep the Internet free for everyone.
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I dont think they can, because i dont know what the US Constitution says but i guess it could be interpreted as censorship, and as far as i know internet its a "neutral space" so to do that you should censor all the internet around the world. I dont think that could be possible.
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peto453 wrote...
I dont think they can, because i dont know what the US Constitution says but i guess it could be interpreted as censorship, and as far as i know internet its a "neutral space" so to do that you should censor all the internet around the world. I dont think that could be possible.Urge your member of Congress to support this important piece of legislation today!
The SavetheInternet.com coalition also applauds the recent passage of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. The law, which allocates $7.2 billion to expand broadband access and adoption, attaches open Internet conditions to all broadband networks built with public funds.
But these conditions only apply to the broadband lines built with federal stimulus money. We need to make Net Neutrality the law of the land to ensure that all networks are open and free from discrimination. That’s why the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 (H.R. 3458) is so important. Take action today to pass this bill and to make Net Neutrality the law.
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Brittany
Director of Production
I did a whole term paper 2 terms ago in college over Net Neutrality. I'll post some stuff from it whenever I find it.
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Old story is old. Nah, it's always good to keep it fresh in the mind. Net Neutrality has bee the bane of the government for quite some time. It works for them on two fronts. They'll likely get lobbyist support from AT&T and Comcast while also removing a big hurdle in cracking down on pirating and other illegal internet activities. I don't see it being overthrown anytime soon though. Too much populace support for the government to handle right now.
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Even though it may be old the FCC is still trying to take away our freedoms. That is why I have posted this, they shouldn't even have the right push this through congress but they are.
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Brittany
Director of Production
Something else that would become an issue that Handler did not mention, but is relevant, is the fact ISP’s would also manage traffic where content providers would have to bid higher prices to allow heavier and faster flow of traffic to view their web sites. In other words: since Wal-Mart can fork out more money, more people can visit at once and navigate throughout their site faster versus a small business owner who is trying to advertise their services. Content providers are up in arms over the matter due to the fact that they feel that this type of management could cause for monopolies to form on the internet, and cause censorship to form as well. The censorship would form by Internet Service Providers denying their customers easy access to rival sites in order to keep their customers loyal to them.
InformationWeek (2009) has let known that Comcast has also been slapped on the wrist, relatively much harder than any other ISP available. Comcast has been monitoring traffic speed during peak hours of high internet usage to help the flow of traffic stay steady. They also have targeted people who are using P2P (Peer-to-Peer, i.e. LimeWire, Kazaa, BitTorrent, eDonkey, etc.) programs to download material including pirated illegal copies of music, games, videos, etc. and limit their transfer speeds. They had claimed they were doing it only during peak hours, but had been caught by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) while doing it during off peak hours as well. Comcast had claimed that they felt they have done nothing wrong, but ended up being the first internet provider who was formally warned and ordered to stop what they were doing by the FCC.
Another case where InformationWeek (2009) displayed an example of a recent event would be when AT&T abruptly blocked a popular subculture website called “4chan.” Anyone with AT&T service was unable to access the site and users were exclaiming censorship and network neutrality infringement. AT&T had to explain and restate several times that they had not blocked the site due to any material held on the website and had blocked access to the site due to having constant “DoS” (Denial of Service) attacks to 4chan for 3 weeks straight. Even to this day, there is still some controversy as to how the situation was handled. The founder of “4chan”, Christopher "Moot" Poole has explained that AT&T did not inform him of the actions they had taken and that he had been handling the situation himself and was surprised when AT&T interjected themselves.
Overall with the sensitivity and the amounts of protests with users and content providers, it does not look like ISP’s will get their way any time soon. Internet Providers already get a large amount of income simply due to how important the internet is to the average person in today’s time. It all comes down to nobody feels that the Internet providers should hold the power of not only providing internet, but also controlling it. The content providers and internet providers are incomplete without each other and would probably benefit if they were able to get along better, simply due to the fact without the content, the ISP’s have nothing to provide, and without the ISP’s the content that’s available cannot be seen.
There's some excerpts from it. Sorry for the crappy writing, it was one of those 'last minute' papers.
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To be honest, I think it's only a matter of time till everything becomes regulated and controlled. For anyone who's played Kojima's MGS4, I kind of feel that humanity most probably will run down that course of every single thing being categorized and controlled. Stability, afterall, has been the purpose and goal of most anything governments and the science's end up obtaining.
