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Net Neutrality

Ever wonder how the internet is so fast, or how some search engines such as Google or Yahoo can work so quickly that in seconds thousands of different hits are available concerning the search? Well that is all thanks to a little something we like to call Net Neutrality, which is defined as the principle that basic internet protocols should be non-discriminatory, all content providers should get equal treatment from internet operators. A Youtube video from savetheinternet.com explains the way the internet works today is that everyone is connected to each other through the same level playing field, the internet is run by different phone or cable companies who now want to change the way everyone receives equal internet service. They want to do this by locking down parts of the web in addition to make sites pay them more money to use it, while everyone else will receive slower service. An article from www.neutriality.ca explains that “a year ago, the net neutrality debate focused on whether rules were needed, while today the debate is changing from whether there should be rules on network management to what those rules should be.” As Ursula Franklin explains in her book The Real World of Technology “the fact that citizens are more and more stringently controlled and managed is often considered as normal and fundamentally beyond questioning, as a necessary feature of technological societies. Technology has been the catalyst for dramatic changes in the locus of power.” Meaning that technology has been the basis of change for many years now, the internet was working fine, everyone was happy with the service of the internet until major cable and phone companies had some reason to think that they should change this. For some reason, in today’s society everything seems to be a big scam there is always more than what meets the eye when it comes to technology or companies or almost anything that we rely on today as a society. As the economy continues to loose money, the world seems to be getting more and more expensive, every where we look and everything we use is constantly raising their prices. It’s difficult to see the world changing in these ways for everyone, its getting harder and harder to live in this world.

Works Cited
CRTC Denies CAIP Application on Throttling, But Sets Net Neutrality Hearing Neutrality.ca
http://www.neutrality.ca/index.php?option=com_extcon&task=view&eid=1&cid=3530
‘Save the Internet’ YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt0XUocViE
‘Net Neutrality’ YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9jHOn0EW8U

posted by Brittany Pacitti's Mass Communications @ 6:09 AM