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SC Wisconsin | I get that this discussion has turned into more government = bad. And I usually agree. But I also have to say that I'm in favor of the net neutrality concept. It means that service providers can't block internet content, they can't throttle content, nor can they prioritize some content over others based on whether or not some website has paid the ISP more to move that website's customers to the front of the line. Basically, your ISP can't pick and choose which site runs well (or runs at all) on your internet connection. And the legal system is littered with court cases where some ISP has done just that. I read a case the other day where a local telephone company/ISP provider blocked access to VOIP services because it wanted to force all customers to stick with their traditional land lines. To put it another way, what would you do if your internet provider decided that Ag Talk was either blocked, or throttled to the lowest priority traffic on their server?
The argument that other net neutrality countries have slower internet service doesn't hold any water with me. Your pure connection speed is one thing, how quickly the ISP decides to deliver websites back to you is another. And I wouldn't hold the US out as a beacon of light around internet speeds - we aren't even in the top 10 fastest countries. I also get that if you are reading this on dial-up or sattelite, your service is so slow that net neutrality probably doesn't matter. It's more of a thing for those with high speed connections.
Will the government mess this up? Probably. But I'm of the opinion that the concept is a good one.
Edited by gmoney 2/27/2015 09:07
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Net Neutrality, Fill me In
