Month: December 2017
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No exaggeration.
No exaggeration.
When the Internet Isn’t the Internet: Comcast May Have Found a Major Net Neutrality Loophole
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Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know Now
In One Minute: This is what we will lose
In One Minute: This is what we will lose
Net neutrality is under threat (again). Here’s why you should care
Net neutrality is under threat (again). Here's why you should care:
Where does the term “net neutrality” come from?
Columbia Law professor Tim Wu, then at the University of Virginia law school, coined the term “net neutrality” in a 2003 paper, in an attempt to define an already-understood vision of the internet. To Wu, net neutrality is not just a way to manage traffic on the internet, but a fundamental philosophy about how innovation happens.
Net neutrality adherents “see innovation process as a survival-of-the-fittest competition among developers of new technologies,” Wu writes, and notes that people supportive of this evolution-through-competition model are suspicious of any structure that instead lets the people who control access to the internet dictate how the competition shakes out.
In essence, Wu argued that the best possible internet is one where consumers themselves choose what applications, uses, and sites are successful. And they voice that choice by visiting (or not visiting) those sites. Without net neutrality ISPs are in a position to fix the game, by taking money from one company to provide better streaming for their video—even if that content wouldn’t normally be fastest to stream.