Net neutrality is a principle that bars Internet providers, primarily phone and cable companies, from charging higher rates to Web-based firms in return for giving their content priority treatment on the pathways to consumers. Without such restrictions, proponents say, a user might find it time-consuming, or even impossible, to call up a favorite site that carriers have relegated to slower lanes for economic or even philosophical reasons.The same article notes that this issue is “obscure to many Americans.” It shouldn’t be: it affects everyone, Republican, Democrat, gun owner, or urbanite. Continue readingNeutrality On the Net Gets High ’08 Profile: Tech Issue Gains Traction in Election, By Charles Babington, Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, February 20, 2007; Page D01
Net Neutrality As Politics
Here’s a really simple net neutrality definition: