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I don’t ask people to just believe me. I ask that people look up this information for themselves. Unless you like the idea of paying extra just to use Facebook and YouTube, I suggest you do some serious independent research on what Net Neutrality really is.

“A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service providers should be allowed to strike deals to give certain Web sites or services priority in reaching computer users, a controversial system that would significantly change how the Internet operates.

William L. Smith, chief technology officer for Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., told reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for the opportunity to have its search site load faster than that of Google Inc.”

This is what happens without net neutrality.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/in-depth/index.cfm?articleid=3028

“At its core, the Net Neutrality movement in the US refers to efforts to keep the Internet open, accessible and “neutral” to all users, application providers and network carriers. In theory, this means, for example, that one carrier would not be allowed to discriminate against an application written by a third party (such as Google Voice) by requiring its users to rely on the carrier’s own proprietary voice applications. A carrier’s walled-garden browser, which allows access to only certain websites, is also not seen as neutral by many neutrality proponents.”

The proposed changes are to prevent the end consumer from getting screwed by his or her ISP. I’m not making this stuff up. This is literally what net neutrality. You can choose not be believe me and only believe news from 1 or 2 sources, but it’s against your own best interests to not question your news sources.

I did just sign up, but there is so much misinformation about net neutrality and spin that some real information needs to get out there.

Net neutrality is designed to prevent censorship. It’s express purpose is to not allow service providers to block or limit content based on content provider.

Without net neutrality:

If your ISP unanimously favors one presidential candidate over another, they can literally block you from visiting the other’s site.

We are literally talking about the possibility of censorship from the corporations. Net neutrality exists to prevent corporations from censoring content that their users choose to view.

Without net neutrality, a web service provider such as Comcast (which is in the process of buying MSNBC) could prevent people from viewing websites that they might not agree with, such as FoxNews or even Free Republic. Or they could force people to upgrade to a certain tier to be able to access ‘premium’ content, such as Facebook or Twitter.

With net neutrality, a web service provider will be required by law to allow that traffic.