Can somebody educate me on net neutrality? I keep up with different issues, but this hasn’t been one of them. I know it’s bad, but I really don’t know what it means. Just a link to a good article would be great. Ten words or less would be golden. :)
The big internet providers (Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc) want to be able to charge Netflix and others for the right to deliver content to the end user. The basically want to put up a toll booth.
Cable television currently makes money from their customers (you and me) and also from the TV stations that pay for the right to be on the cable lineup. The ISPs want a similar business model for that business. Of course once ISPs start making decisions about what you can access then they could cut off whatever they want (think "hate sites" like freerepublic)
Net neutrality is the concept that ISPs should be neutral and simply transmit information not interfere in any way.