Sept. 9 Could Mark the Beginning of the End for Net Neutrality

[marmar]

Published on Monday, September 9, 2013 by Save the Internet
Sept. 9 Could Mark the Beginning of the End for Net Neutrality

by Josh Levy


Sept. 9 is the next front in the long-running battle over what we can do and say online.

That’s the day Verizon will face the Federal Communications Commission in court over the agency’s Net Neutrality protections, which the company wants to overturn. If Verizon gets its way, the FCC’s rules protecting Internet users from corporate abuse will disappear.

Net Neutrality isn’t a new concept: The principle paved the way for the online innovations — including the World Wide Web — we now take for granted. As Sir Tim Berners-Lee put it, “When I invented the Web, I didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission.”

Net Neutrality means that ISPs like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon should be in the business of selling us Internet access, and not in the business of blocking, editing or discriminating against the information we send, the sites we visit or the applications we use. It requires ISPs to keep their hands off the content and focus on providing access to the network. .........................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/09-2

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1. Recommended.

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2. It is places like this that scare

Corporations

[Phlem]

3. K&R!

It is one of the few things that keep huge special interests from running all over the citizenry because we can network with each other instantly. I can't imagine taking that away.



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4. du rec.

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Thanks for the thread, marmar.