Monday, March 5, 2007

Computer Terms: What Is "Net Neutrality"?

Net Neutrality is the principle of the equal access to the internet. It is the rule to make it fair for everybody to get access to the internet or run some applications. Under this rule, no matter who you are, even if you were George Bush, or Mr. Abe, you are supposed to get the same speed and quality access to the net. However some phone and cable companies now are ignoring the net neutrality and competing to locking down some web and making some applications and sites slow down. These companies want to make their search engine or the services higher quality and faster than the others’ so users would choose the company and pay for it. This is a serious problem because without the principle internet users may have to experience discriminations such as not being able to run some applications or devices, and taking for ages to get access to some web sites. Internet should be free and open for anybody, so we can not let some evil companies to get rid of net neutrality and save us from the internet risks!
Here is the website
"Save the Internet..."http://www.savetheinternet.com/
It has got a cool animation about this issue and help u with understand a lot more about it!!

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