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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 1453938" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p>It's just that you might have it backwards. </p><p></p><p><em><strong>"...Net neutrality</strong> (also <strong>network neutrality</strong> or <strong>Internet neutrality</strong>) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003 as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier..." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality" target="_blank"> </a></em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality" target="_blank">LINK</a></p><p></p><p>What Comcast and other cable companies want to do is implement some sort of 'tiered' system whereby websites that pay them more or whom they are aligned with will have faster speeds coming into your house. This is problematic for a bunch of different reasons that other people are probably better at describing than I am.</p><p></p><p>A good analogy that I heard is the comparison between internet service providers and electric companies.</p><p></p><p>I pay my electric company for electricity, but they don't get to decide what I do with that electricity. They charge me a rate, I use the electricity as I choose, end of story.</p><p></p><p>If Comcast gets their way and is able to change the speeds or download rates of certain websites over others, that would be like my electric company telling me that since I use a Kenmore washer, they're going to slow my washer down a bit, but if I bought a Maytag washer, it would run just fine, unless I wanted to <em>pay them a bit more</em>, and then my Kenmore would also run fine, etc. etc. That's insane.</p><p></p><p>In this case, I think Obama is correct. Letting the big players decide who gets into the internet game is anti-free market and would add a chilling effect to innovation.</p><p></p><p>Obama wants the FCC to reclassify broadband service so it won't be subject to the whims of the largest players in the industry. In this instance, I think he's correct.</p><p></p><p>When Ted Cruz says this is just like Obamacare, that's not even apples and oranges, that's apples and spaceships.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 1453938, member: 18225"] It's just that you might have it backwards. [I][B]"...Net neutrality[/B] (also [B]network neutrality[/B] or [B]Internet neutrality[/B]) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003 as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier..." [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality'] [/URL][/I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality']LINK[/URL] What Comcast and other cable companies want to do is implement some sort of 'tiered' system whereby websites that pay them more or whom they are aligned with will have faster speeds coming into your house. This is problematic for a bunch of different reasons that other people are probably better at describing than I am. A good analogy that I heard is the comparison between internet service providers and electric companies. I pay my electric company for electricity, but they don't get to decide what I do with that electricity. They charge me a rate, I use the electricity as I choose, end of story. If Comcast gets their way and is able to change the speeds or download rates of certain websites over others, that would be like my electric company telling me that since I use a Kenmore washer, they're going to slow my washer down a bit, but if I bought a Maytag washer, it would run just fine, unless I wanted to [I]pay them a bit more[/I], and then my Kenmore would also run fine, etc. etc. That's insane. In this case, I think Obama is correct. Letting the big players decide who gets into the internet game is anti-free market and would add a chilling effect to innovation. Obama wants the FCC to reclassify broadband service so it won't be subject to the whims of the largest players in the industry. In this instance, I think he's correct. When Ted Cruz says this is just like Obamacare, that's not even apples and oranges, that's apples and spaceships. [/QUOTE]
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