The New Year will see a bill introduced to the US senate that would enshrine network neutrality into law, barring internet service providers (ISPs) from filtering the parts of the web their customers can access.
Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, says such a law is essential to prevent ISPs from discriminating against certain internet content in their own interest.
The net neutrality fight pits ISPs like AT&T and Verizon against content companies like Google and Apple. ISPs say they need freedom to manage the ever-growing traffic on their networks without government interference.
But content companies say that ISPs hold too power much to block or slow down traffic as they wish. For example, by slowing down bandwidth-hogging movie downloads, or preventing users accessing certain content for commercial reasons.
Information found at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16041-us-net-neutrality-law-could-outlaw-throttling.html
So, basically, this segment says that a bill is trying to pass in the Senate that will allow Net Neutrality to become law. However, there are groups and companies that are trying to fight the ISP's and allow for a truly free and un-interrupted use of the internet.
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