1. “Net Neutrality and The Federal
Communications Commission (FCC).”
By: Preston Williams III

2. Net Neutrality is the Foundation for
“The Internet of Things”.
I am one of several Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Chief Information
Officers (CIOs), Chief Digital Officers (CDOs), Chief Technology
Officers (CTOs) & Chief Innovation Officers (CIOs) in American
companies who lent our voices in the effort to “Keep the Internet as
we know it” (
https://www.change.org/p/tom-wheeler-save-net-neutrality).
This infrastructure including the technology and governing policies
are what made it possible for us to experience many of the
revolutionary innovations which have resulted in appreciable
improvements in the human experience. Companies like Yahoo (
www.yahoo.com), Google (www.google.com), FaceBook
(www.facebook.com) and GBC (www.gbc-inc.net) among many
others would not exist today if the recent action taken by the FCC
was not inherent in the creation and management of the policies
and guidelines which encourage creativity through this medium
called “The Internet”.

3. Net Neutrality Promotes Creativity.
Several of my colleagues and I were vehement in our quest to
ensure that the internet remain “FREE & FAIR” in order to protect
our digital rights while allowing others with new and hopefully
better ideas to create new products and services to further
enhance / improve humanity.
(https://www.aclu.org/secure/FCC_preserve_net_neutrality).
Without net neutrality, initiatives like “The Human Genome Project
(HGP) (http://www.genome.gov/10001772)” would never have
been conceptualized. Today, this has resulted in successful
sequencing & mapping of the human genome. An “OPEN, FREE &
FAIR” Internet will provide a foundation for new collaborative
research in Genomics and many other fields.

4. The FCC Votes to
Keep American Innovation Alive.
“The "Open Internet" is the Internet as we know it. It's open because it uses free,
publicly available standards that anyone can access and build to, and it treats all
traffic that flows across the network in roughly the same way. The principle of the
Open Internet is sometimes referred to as "net neutrality." Under this principle,
consumers can make their own choices about what applications and services to
use and are free to decide what lawful content they want to access, create, or
share with others. This openness promotes competition and enables investment
and innovation.
The Open Internet also makes it possible for anyone, anywhere to easily launch
innovative applications and services, revolutionizing the way people communicate,
participate, create, and do business—think of email, blogs, voice and video
conferencing, streaming video, and online shopping. Once you're online, you don't
have to ask permission or pay tolls to broadband providers to reach others on the
network. If you develop an innovative new website, you don't have to get
permission to share it with the world.
~ Source: The Federal Communications Commission
(http://www.fcc.gov/openinternet)