Will We Ever Get Net Neutrality Back?
 Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 by Connie T.
Here is yet another reason why we love our local cable and internet provider:
net neutrality is not an issue for us. But for many of you out there, it is. Net (or Network)
Neutrality is the principle that your broadband network may not restrict, block, nor censor the content you view;
nor may it give you, for example, easier access to websites that pay your carrier more money.
The FCC has removed Net Neutrality from the law. Companies like AT&T, Verizon, Bellsouth,
Comcast, and Time Warner wanted Net Neutrality eliminated so that they could
prioritize the websites that bring them the most advertising revenue. The multi-billion dollar companies - many
of them the same
telecoms that just won wiretapping immunity through FISA - can "manage" their web traffic (you)
as they choose.
Without Net Neutrality, Google probably wouldn't have become what it is today.
Any start-up web business, in fact, is at a distinct disadvantage.
Will you ask Congress to reinstate
Net Neutrality back into the law?
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