So, it's been a while I suppose, not that enough people read this to really notice, but anyway, I have a good subject for my thoughts...
So, today I'd like to take a moment to talk to you about 'net neutrality. Which is short for Internet Neutrality. It's a bit of regulation that's trying to go through congress at the moment. I'm sure most of you don't know what it is, so here's the short story.
You pay somebody, be it a school, Verizon, AT&T or Earthlink or AOL to access the internet. You ave given a maximum amount of speed(bandwidth) to go to whatever website you want, read what you want, play games over the net like WoW, or whatever. You are paying, essentially, for a certain size pipe, the bigger the pipe, the more speed you have on the net.
However, several companies aren't happy making billions of dollars from this situation. They're apparently come to the conclusion that bloggers like you and me, need to pay for the pipe on our end. If we don't pay, then the service provider can limit or block access to our page. It would in short mean that we would have to pay every company that does this a fee, likly about the same amount the average person pays for the average internet connection.
Basically, what the change is, is that instead of the user who wants to surf the net paying for a certain amount of access, the pages they are trying to access would have to pay the company in order to get accessed. And as all of us bloggers are aware, there are a lot of people, if not most of the people with websites, who depend on people being able to freely access their page. Whether it be for reading a blog or fan-page of their fav baseball player.
This is a move that is completly unaceptable and should not be permitted, legally enforced if it must. Companies provided internet access for years without this kind of setup, and the only reason they are doing it now is TO MAKE MORE MONEY. Owners and presidents of these companies take home more in a year than most people do in a lifetime. Capitalisim is great and all, but capitalism comes second to freedom. The internet is a place of freedom.
1 comment:
Thanks for sharing. I guess it was only a matter of time until somebody said "hey, can't we find a way to make even more money using the internet?" It's kind of like gas though - we got so used to driving that we are now willing to pay any amount for fuel and we are so used to surfing the 'net, most of us will pay if we have to continue. What did Michael Douglas say in the movie "Wall Street" GREED IS GOOD. I just wish I was one of the shareholders in an oil or internet company!
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