WhileLasVegasSleeps.com Supports Net Neutrality
While not necessarily a very political blog, While Las Vegas Sleeps… and those of us involved here try to be politically and socially aware. One huge, often ignored by the general public issue regarding the future of the Internet is that of “net neutrality.” In a nutshell, this is the guiding principle of openness, freedom, and a hands-off approach to providing Internet service, insuring freedom of speech and a rich, competitive, environment where the little guys can stand toe-to-toe with the corporations. YourDot.com or Google.com – if the content is available it shouldn’t be any quicker to access that of a giant than that of a gerbil.
Right now there are forces in the world that have changed the playing field of providing internet service. In the not too distant past, providing service was a specialized field with many smaller companies providing service and support at the local and sometimes regional level. During the dot com boom, many giants started gobbling the smaller companies who historically always supported the idea of net neutrality. Now that you get your internet service from the same people that provide, say, your telephone service, and/or your cable for your television, they feel like they are in a position to start charging or taxing certain services for an insured fast, reliable connection, and possibly make some content unavailable altogether. If this trend, like what is going on at Comcast and other providers continues, it will be just one more area of human life that requires you to be rich in order to get richer. It’s an incremental process that has to be stopped now before it is unstoppable.
Please visit Save the Internet and become aware of the fight that’s going on for internet freedom.
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