With Democratic majority, Net Neutrality likely to pass
I just read an exciting article on c|net news. Now with the democratic majority, the Net Neutrality act is likely to pass. For those of you who don't know what Net Neutrality is (which is far too many, unfortunately. Since it affects us teens, as well as global interconnectedness) it's the idea to keep the internet how it is. By that I mean everyone has a voice. Your small blog will load at the same rate that the McDonald's site will. However most republicans were against net neutrality. The idea was bigger sites that pay more will get more bandwidth, and smaller sites will get less if any. This means the big company pages will load fastest, but small blogs and webpages will load slower, if at all. This saves money for ISPs who have to pay large ammounts of money to keep up with server demands and bandwidth limitations. Not passing Net Neutrality allows the ISPs to decide who gets the faster connections, allowing them to make more money.The internet has connected the world and many more things are possible. I was very scared the it would not pass because that would change everything that has made the internet so important and powerful. However, this article reassures me.
For more information on net neutrality, visit www.moveon.org
posted by Anonymous @ 11/15/2006 11:31:00 AM
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Those ISP companies say they have trouble keeping up with the access demands and upkeep, but all I really hear is "blah, blah, blah." As if they don't make enough money by overpricing Internet connectivity. They got into the Internet Service Provider business knowing that the business would expand rapidly, and they should have known. But to charge people to have premium bandwidth is just wrong. The Internet was established as a means to share information between the many geologically different locations of the Federal departments. And the World Wide Web (the website ideal that is the basis of information sharing) was started by a European science institute (CERN, if I remember correctly) on a NeXTCube (a bit of nerdy Apple history for you). The Internet shouldn't be dictated by a corporate world's insatiable desire for money. The Internet's various hubs are in various countries, so it would be hard (and messy) if the United States tried to put a tax on a commodity they don't really own. I say leave the Internet just the way it is, and find other ways to rake in the cash, like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calling and Digital Television packages. Other ISPs are doing it (*cough* Comcast *cough*).
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