Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Who would benefit if we got rid of Net Neutrality?

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies -- including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner -- want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won't load at all.
They want to tax content providers to guarantee speedy delivery of their data. They want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services, and streaming video -- while slowing down or blocking their competitors.
These companies have a new vision for the Internet. Instead of an even playing field, they want to reserve express lanes for their own content and services -- or those from big corporations that can afford the steep tolls -- and leave the rest of us on a winding dirt road.
The big phone and cable companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to gut Net Neutrality, putting the future of the Internet at risk.

Information found at http://www.savetheinternet.com/=faq#who

Ok, so, what this article says is that the only ones who would be making a benefit if Net Neutrality were to go away would be major telephone and broadband companies. Again, this is because if Net Neutrality were gone, they would regulate who could access their sites and could block anyone out who didn't pay them already or just have their page take extreme amounts of time to load. Thus, they would make a huge profit while we supplied them for what we currently get unlimited of for a set, fairly reasonable price.

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