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Tags: computer software, computer technology, wide scale battle for net neutrality
 You might not have heard about it, but there's an ongoing battle for your internet privileges. What I believed to be a battle between Google and AT&T is a wide scale battle for net neutrality. If you've heard about this and you have no idea what this means, I’ll try to explain it in the most understandable way possible. Basically we're looking at a way to keep the net the way it is, or because of uncommon user experiences, the way it generally is. That means you get to go to whatever lawful site that you want whenever you want or doing whatever you want online as long as it's legal.
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The Federal Communications Commission wants to maintain something like a free and open internet that doesn't discriminate against users or websites. How can websites and users be discriminated?Well, let's say that the Internet Service Providers have their way and they're able to discriminate against a website or a service that's provided over the web. Let's say that part of your business is talking to clients over the internet via VoIP like Skype. Some service providers like AT&T or Verizon might limit the use of VoIP services of other companies because they also provide similar services. As a result it can render a service ineffective or just plain useless.
They can reduce the amount of Bandwidth available for a particular site or service over the web and cost those companies millions of dollars. Alternately they can also provide a "premium" service for users that are willing to pay more money to allow access to websites that require more bandwidth. I can see that this may make internet service providers sound bad, but those are all very possible. Net Neutrality abandons discrimination in the sense that anything online will become available to you no matter what it is. Now because of the proposed rules of the FCC, a “premium” service might be put in place by the ISP’s so that they can be compensated for the amount of bandwidth consumed by any one user. It can actually go two ways: Either the price of good high speed internet goes up or we pay for the amount of bandwidth we consume. These are all very familiar since there are ISP’s that already do this. There are already caps for the amount of bandwidth that you can consume in a month and high speed internet really isn’t cheap, so there’s nothing really new about this. John McCain is opposed to Net Neutrality and he’s passed a bill to prevent it from happening because he says that it’ll prevent growth and high paying jobs for anyone who’s unemployed. I think he’s clearly forgotten about the numerous opportunities that can be found online and how preventing the FCC’s ruling body can potentially cripple those businesses.
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