Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Let it Be


Net neutrality is about who chooses the content you see and use on the internet. Currently it is ourselves. We connect to the internet and open our browsers to use several different search engines and surf several different websites. This is possible because net neutrality allows us to do so by not allowing our internet provider to control of block certain sites. The purpose of net neutrality is to prevent your network provider from degrading your access to these websites, and makes you want to choose an alternative that they want you to choose. The reason why providers do this is simple; $$MONEY$$. Internet providers are getting paid to slow their service down on certain websites to force you to use another website they want you to use. Another case is that the provider has created their own alternative that they want you to become familiar with and start using to gain business from you. It uses their power of providing you with a service, to increase demand and business for something of their own. These conflicts are the restricting battlegrounds between public and private sectors. If net neutrality laws are not enforced, we will forever be controlled.

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