We’re About To Lose Net Neutrality — And The Internet As We Know It
Wired.com
- BY MARVIN AMMORI
- 11.04.13
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Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently — say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes — the dead man walking isn’t some abstract or far-removed principle just for wonks: It affects the internet as we all know it.
Once upon a time, companies like AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and others declared a war on the internet’s foundational principle: that its networks should be “neutral” and users don’t need anyone’s permission to invent, create, communicate, broadcast, or share online. The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.
But today, that freedom won’t survive much longer if a federal court — the second most powerful court in the nation behind the Supreme Court, the DC Circuit — is set to strike down the nation’s net neutrality law, a rule adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2010. Some will claim the new solution “splits the baby” in a way that somehow doesn’t kill net neutrality and so we should be grateful. But make no mistake: Despite eight years of public and political activism by multitudes fighting for freedom on the internet, a court decision may soon take it away.
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How disappointing
The tax payers own the lines. If they want to try and steal out internet we can just delete their company.
Let them try and watch the biggest boycott in history and these mega corporations will be history …
Do these politicians EVER get tired of screwing us around? Fire all these corrupt morons.
Time to build a new internet one that can not be controlled by corporations or hacked by nsa.
The problem I have with the internet are the GORE AND PORN SHARING ALONG WITH BLASPHEMIES IT DOES TOWARDS RELIGION!
Saying as such IT WOULD BE WISE TO CONTROL IT!
AT LEAST IN TERMS OF MAKING THOSE THINGS NON EXISTENT!
well for how long has it been that google just won’t go to some sites, or buries a search, or completely scrubs a topic from search….the problem is that THE PEOPLE have no ready means of REDRESS of grievances. Can we please THINK TANK that topic and come up with something better than ANONYMOUS? ty. get to work on it will ya….
The answer is simple….. Kim Dotcom….