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"Internet Neutrality" Threatened
http://www.infoworld.com/t/net-neutrality/verizon-attacks-net-neutrality-in-dc-court-230248
This sounds bad. Another article I read said it would mean slower internet at higher prices. We may all have been enjoying a kind of golden age of internet that will soon end.
Net Neutrality:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
Net neutrality is about to have its day in court at last -- but that might not be a good thing for its supporters.
Back in September at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Verizon spoke its piece about how the Federal Communication Commission had allegedly exceeded its authority by enacting network neutrality relations on ISPs like Verizon.
If Verizon gets its way, the court will strike down the Net neutrality provisions adopted by the FCC in 2010. Those rules were set up to keep providers from creating "the equivalents of tollbooths, fast lanes, and dirt roads" on the Internet, as Marvin Ammori of Wired put it.
Verizon and many other Internet providers have been longing to put up those tollbooths and fast/slow lanes for some time now...
http://www.infoworld.com/t/net-neutrality/verizon-attacks-net-neutrality-in-dc-court-230248
This sounds bad. Another article I read said it would mean slower internet at higher prices. We may all have been enjoying a kind of golden age of internet that will soon end.
Net Neutrality:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality