Saturday, January 15, 2011

Net Neutrality

Internet Service Providers want to treat your phone, cable, and internet as different services so that they can divide and conquer. They want to be able to charge us for the things we use the most, thus limiting our power by hitting us where it hurts the most. The glory of the internet is in its power to widen our eyes to the world around us by blurring the lines and closing the distance that used to divide us. The internet allows anyone to say what ever they want. It allows people to video chat with the other side of the world in real time. And it is an infinite storage unit for knowledge, with links leaving the perfect paper trail. We need to make sure that the internet stays free and open. For a diagram explanation of net neutrality visit this link.

1 comment:

  1. Excellent post and diagram. I'm with you: We need to keep the Internet free and open.

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