Sunday, September 19, 2010

Net neutrality

I just read an interesting article on net neutrality and the ongoing debate about it. I didn't know much about the concept so it kinda opened my eyes to what the big deal is. It's actually pretty important for anyone who likes to use the internet unhindered. Net neutrality is basically what makes it possible for a computer to work on popular and unpopular websites at the same speed, without bias. However if this changes, like certain companies want it to, then websites who pay for it will have faster speeds and websites who don't pay will have slower speeds( which will really effect those of you who use websites like this or have personal web-pages). While it seems like an obvious decision to keep net neutrality, the debate is more about money than freedom. Check out this article for more

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/n/net_neutrality/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier