Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Beyond Net Neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission met at Harvard University to investigate Comcasts alleged blocking of particular types of Internet traffic. The idea behind net neutrality states that information moved over the internet should not be decided by those who benefit financially. An example states that a blockbuster movie company can't decide Youtube videos are less important than their movies. Comcast states it has to violate Net Neutrality because traffic on the internet is exceeding Comcast's capacity. It states that we need more than Net Neutrality and signifies some sort of a structural change is needed so we don't have to settle.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/02/23/beyond_net_neutrality/

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