When you go online you have certain expectations. You expect to be connected to whatever website you want. You expect that your cable or phone company isn’t messing with the data and is connecting you to all websites, applications and content you choose. You expect to be in control of your internet experience.
When you use the internet you expect Net Neutrality.
Net Neutrality is the basic principle that prohibits internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from speeding up, slowing down or blocking any content, applications or websites you want to use. Net Neutrality is the way that the internet has always worked.
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https://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know-now
Beware the propaganda denouncing net neutrality. It relies heavily on misrepresenting facts and straight-up lies.
Much of this propaganda is being posted on the Twitter feeds of the 3 FCC commissioners who want to remove net neutrality:
https://twitter.com/mikeofcchttps://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCChttps://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCCExamples of misleading articles pushing anti- net neutrality:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-net-neutrality-stirs-such-passion-1495230726http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/for-the-internet-we-need-federalism-not-anarchy/article/2641110https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/internet-regulation-ted-cruz
Some common myths being pushed by anti- net neutrality propaganda:
1. The internet was perfectly fine during the "light touch" era of internet regulation, before Obama's heavy-handed net neutrality regulations.The FCC has regulated ISP's with various net neutrality-like principles for a long time. The problem was that these regulations were not very explicit, consistent, and were on a shaky legal foundation. The
2010 FCC Open Internet Order's goal was to make those principles explicit. However, it did not survive
it's day in court on a classification technicality. In order to rectify this, ISP's were classified as "common carriers", so they could be regulated under "Title II" common carrier regulations.
This representation of the issue as "light-touch" vs "Obama-era heavy regulations" is nothing but an attempt to gain support from Republican partisans.
2. "Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media."Is anyone surprised that the Dumbass-in-Chief has no idea what net neutrality is? This doesn't make the tiniest lick of sense. If anything, the exact opposite is true. Removing net neutrality will give ISP's more power to control content served to their customers. Comcast owns MSNBC. AT&T recently announced plans to buy Time Warner, which owns CNN.
3. Net neutrality is overbearing government micromanagement of the internet. Here are the principles of net neutrality. You can decide for yourself if it constitutes "overbearing micromanagement":
1. ISP's must disclose their basic network performance to customers. No misrepresenting network speeds or other terms of the contract.
2. No blocking anything lawful.
3. No discriminating among internet traffic. No slowing down Netflix traffic in favor of Amazon traffic, or youtube in favor of... other tubes.
Tortured metaphors in a futile effort to explain net neutrality to the technically un-inclined are highly encouraged in this thread.