Wednesday, March 16, 2011

About Net Neutrality

What does it mean and what is the importance of net neutrality?

 To begin..
How would you feel if major phone and cable companies controlled and limited what we can and cannot use on the internet, as well as charge for certain services. This is the broad idea of the threat that could put free internet if net neutrality is destroyed. 


So what is net neutrality?

The idea of internet neutrality is for all those participating in the use of it to have equal and free use without any government or corporate restriction or advantage. Net neutrality has not been a issue due to the growth of the internet being not that far away  in history, but more in recent years as broadband providers have become larger and more powerful. There is a hierarchy of power in the world today with those who have money and involved with media,politics,culture and government, when these companies gain the ability to censor and control with charges and connection, net neutrality exists no more.





One question surrounding net neutraility is the reason why it would be closed at all.
The supposed reason for those in control of broadband to cut off net neutrality would be for the profit and control for the content for the internet user. 


 
An important question that is at issue with the discussion net neutrality that is a confusion to many is the role of government vs. phone and cable companies in the controversy.







The distortion by some news media today is that the it is the GOVERNMENT who wants to control and take away the freedom of net neutrality. People need to understand that it was what we already have that needs to be protected, that any kind of change of freedom would change net neutrality. Here is an example of Fox News,Glenn Beck distorting net neutrality to be in no kind of threat at all, he also criticizes Free Press to be Marxist and that they are the ones that really want to change internet freedom. he also says that there "is no problem if free speech is the goal". He fails to understand that we are not trying to change what freedom we have, but the freedom that is trying to be taking away.




Another great example of Fox News distorting the idea of net neutrality is with Glenn Beck again, along with Bill O'Reilly. Here they  take the whole idea of it and instead but the blame on the government(the left), and turn it into a political issue involving politics and the white house. What they distort is that it is not the government at all that would be managing these broadband gate way's, but the major cable providing companies.

It is pretty clear who is for net neutrality and who is against it. Those for net neutrality are those in control of the Broadband connections, the major phone and cable companies want it gone so that they can turn it into a monopoly for themselves to gain profit from.
Those that are for the internet are, at least should be, every common person using the internet for buisness, social, entertaining purpose for free speech and action on the Internet. The buisness market, and all kind of music, social and news related content would all be compromised. 

Personally in my opinion this is all to much of a coincidence. As I said before, there is a distortion between the government and Cable companies desires for net neutrality, and it is the cable companies that would be taking away internet freedom.
The issue I see here in general is that the these kind of cable and content providers are some of the largest powers in the country, and them along with all the others, are only getting smaller in number, and bigger in power. Only now The government, media and major corporations are all mutually coming together for a kind of partnership that I see revolving around money and overall control on the peoples content and freedom.
Net neutrality must be saved and maintained by the American public, for it is their right, our right.








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