IM POSTING AGAIN BEFORE THE VOTE ON NOV. 6 THAT DECIDES THE FUTURE FREEDOM (OR LACK THEREOF) OF THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT! PLEASE MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD ON A HUGE TOPIC OF FREEDOM THAT WILL AFFECT EVERYONE OF US. How would the Internet change? Increasingly, we use the Internet not just for social media, news, booking travel, and buying books, but also for fitness and health, payments, education, urban transportation, business logistics, national security, and everything else. Changing the Internet would have a huge impact on multiple industries. Under the proposed rules, cable and phone giants like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon would be able to create a two-tiered Internet, with slow lanes (for most of us) and fast lanes (for wealthy corporations that are willing pay fees in exchange for fast service). They would be able to strike “exclusive” deals for priority on their networks, picking winners and losers in different industries based on contracts not on consumer demand. This would impact the vast majority of web companies—not just the largest companies that use the most bandwidth.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:02:20 +0000
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