Network Neutrality: How We Brought this on Ourselves
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The document discusses network neutrality and the issues around regulations of internet service providers. It argues that regulations have historically given exceptions and prioritized certain users over others, stacking the system in favor of large companies. Both under-regulation and over-regulation have failed to create true competition or open networks. The future may require a regulatory reset, more open networks like "Red Fiber", or municipal broadband to avoid the internet fracturing into closed systems controlled by internet service providers.
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Big name companies should not have the right to be able to discriminate lesser used net services,due to the lack of usage or popularity. For some companies this topic is seen as a desirable way to improve quality because they are bigger companies with more money. This can be equally, if not more so, harmful to smaller companies just starting up. Many internet application companies like Google,Reddit,eBay,Amazon etc support net neutrality regulation.Google in 2008 stated, opposing market power of broadband providers to control access to their content and other applications. These Site favor an open Internet. Every site or company should have equal opportunity for customers to have access to content across the entire world wide web.
Many of these companies are starting to fight back, “Several tech companies including Etsy, Kickstarter, Foursquare and Shutterstock filed a petition on Monday afternoon challenging the Federal Communications Commission's rollback of net neutrality protections”. (Horrowitz,Tech Companies).
Any news, website or forum is accessible under net neutrality, given it has legality to exist. Theoretically ISP’s can charge you more or less to use these services. An open internet allows friendly and EQUAL competition, this ensures that a company has un-altered access to their content and level the playing field for larger companies to be treated the same as small start-ups.
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The document discusses network neutrality and opposing views on the topic. It summarizes Barbara van Schewick's view that without network neutrality rules, users' ability to access lawful internet content of their choice is not guaranteed. It also summarizes David Farber's opposing view that the internet developed without government intervention and that regulating it now would slow its evolution. The document provides context on both sides of the network neutrality debate.
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Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication - Well this principle is now getting challenged by ISP's. This article is basically my views on the topic. have fun reading
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All the q about net neutrality.
1. Who is in favor of net neutrality? What reasons do they offer for this position?
2. What legal challenges are critics making against the FCC\'s rules? What three approaches are
they taking? Which is likely to succeed?
3. What affect could the FCC\'s decision have on the government, consumers, and various
internet-related companies? Are conditions expected to change drastically for any of these
groups?
Solution
1. Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all
data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site,
platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. Nearly anyone
and any business not involved with the cable and phone companies supports keeping the Internet
as the open marketplace that it is today. Consumer groups, small businesses, innovators, family
and religious groups, financial services, retailers as well as major Internet brands such as Google,
Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Earthlink, eBay, Intel, Microsoft, Skype, Vonage are fighting to keep the
Internet open.
2.The FCC just voted in favor of a strong net neutrality rule to keep the Internet open and free.A
legal fight against the Federal Communications Commission\'s new Internet traffic rules has
begun with a suit by the United States Telecom Association, an industry group that represents
companies including AT&T and Verizon. The FCC is honing in on three areas of oversight: the
blocking of access to any content, the \'throttling\' of Internet traffic (slowing it down for reasons
other than what may be technically necessary to maintain a network\'s operations), and paid
prioritization (in which providers may favor some Internet traffic over others by creating \'fast
lanes\' for websites and services that can pay for them). One of the key legal arguments to expect
in the months to come, according to Werbach, is that the FCC previously said a company can
either be a telecommunications service or an information service, but not both. ISPs may argue
that they are elements of both and that the FCC must prove that they are not information
companies before it can reclassify them, says Werbach.
3.It will be a long time before anything materialises. Netflix won\'t stream any faster for you and
ISPs won\'t stop investing in their networks or high speed fiber cables as a result. Internet service
providers say they back the concept. But they don\'t want to face more, costly regulation and
claim it would hurt the economy.
Their argument is the internet has been progressing just fine the way it is currently set up, thanks
in parts to their expensive investments in network upgrades that have improved the quality of
high-speed service and expanded its availability.
More regulation will cost them more money - money they would otherwise spend on expanding
and improving their networks, they say. That would have the trickle-down effect of hurting
b.
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