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So here's something to be aware about if you use the internet which I think translates to possibly anybody who uses the computer.
Net neutrality is dead. as of January 14, 2013.
I'll try to explain but I'll put in a link that will do a better job of explaining it at the bottom.
Basically under net neutrality, each Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have to treat all the sites and content you access in the same fair way, with the same speed and in no way allowed to slow down other ISPs speed. All is equal.
However since net neutrality is dead now, it will mean several things can/will change.
-ISPs can now speed up the loading time to those sites they like and slow down those they dislike.
-ISPs can force websites to pay to deliver their contents faster = faster loading time.
-With net neutrality dead, smaller sites will get screwed over since they'll likely to suffer from the slower content delivery.
-Specific types of online traffic, like Netflix, may not work like it use to because the ISPs can discriminate which sites to block or slow down.
- ISPs can make more money without improving the Internet.
Here you can read about it in more details.
Crediting http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/14/net-neutrality_n_4597831.html for the information.
And here is also a petition to "Restore Net Neutrality" on Whitehouse.gov that needs 100,000 by February 14, 2014:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/restore-net-neutrality-directing-fcc-classify-internet-providers-common-carriers/5CWS1M4P
This is sickening to me. All I see are companies out to make more money and doing whatever it takes to accomplish that even by screwing over the people. And that's not all, look at it in a different light, look at how much power they have if they direct control over what information we can access. Add in the politics and I see a lot of us being blindsided. So please sign and bring more awareness to net neutrality.
Good day.
Added Note:
credited to shycustis (Though this comment on their tumblr is gone, check out their amazing works of art if you want)
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A US CITIZEN TO SIGN THIS.
Why should someone outside the US care? What passes in one industrialised nation gives companies and politicians more leverage to pass similar laws in their own.
Having this sort of discrimination in the hands of companies has political consequences in addition to the ones mentioned above. Think of the influence these ISPs would have if allowed to keep these powers? Any ISP with a political bias, or influenced by a political party, would have the power to direct access to information on the internet at their will.
Net neutrality is dead. as of January 14, 2013.
I'll try to explain but I'll put in a link that will do a better job of explaining it at the bottom.
Basically under net neutrality, each Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have to treat all the sites and content you access in the same fair way, with the same speed and in no way allowed to slow down other ISPs speed. All is equal.
However since net neutrality is dead now, it will mean several things can/will change.
-ISPs can now speed up the loading time to those sites they like and slow down those they dislike.
-ISPs can force websites to pay to deliver their contents faster = faster loading time.
-With net neutrality dead, smaller sites will get screwed over since they'll likely to suffer from the slower content delivery.
-Specific types of online traffic, like Netflix, may not work like it use to because the ISPs can discriminate which sites to block or slow down.
- ISPs can make more money without improving the Internet.
Here you can read about it in more details.
Crediting http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/14/net-neutrality_n_4597831.html for the information.
And here is also a petition to "Restore Net Neutrality" on Whitehouse.gov that needs 100,000 by February 14, 2014:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/restore-net-neutrality-directing-fcc-classify-internet-providers-common-carriers/5CWS1M4P
This is sickening to me. All I see are companies out to make more money and doing whatever it takes to accomplish that even by screwing over the people. And that's not all, look at it in a different light, look at how much power they have if they direct control over what information we can access. Add in the politics and I see a lot of us being blindsided. So please sign and bring more awareness to net neutrality.
Good day.
Added Note:
credited to shycustis (Though this comment on their tumblr is gone, check out their amazing works of art if you want)
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A US CITIZEN TO SIGN THIS.
Why should someone outside the US care? What passes in one industrialised nation gives companies and politicians more leverage to pass similar laws in their own.
Having this sort of discrimination in the hands of companies has political consequences in addition to the ones mentioned above. Think of the influence these ISPs would have if allowed to keep these powers? Any ISP with a political bias, or influenced by a political party, would have the power to direct access to information on the internet at their will.