socialmedian: A Facebook Dialogue on Net Neutrality

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Source: Kevin Bondelli's YD Blog

Oct 27, 2009

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So yesterday I gave in and engaged a conservative on Facebook that was spouting nonsense about net neutrality.

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CON: Multinational corporations such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. put together the “Net Neutrality” movement to help their bottom line. The end of free internet begins when the Gov’t starts regulating it.

ME: I call bullshit on [CON]. “Net neutrality” as it is called means keeping the internet the way it is now. The only government regulation is preventing internet service providers and telecom companies from throttling the bandwidth of non-corporate websites. If there is a local band offering a free download of their album on their website, the download could take a hell of a lot longer than it does now since full upload/download speed would be reserved for the big corporate music sites.

Without net neutrality telecom sites could drastically drop the bandwidth of sites that they oppose politically. Do we really want corporations to be able to influence the flow of online traffic to serve their own ends?

Plus, fail

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