It's no secret that the internet has become a vital part of
our lives. Many people keep up to date
on the latest on critical issues. Social
movements have been started and important stories have been released ahead of
the corp-media.
Some of us think keeping the internet free from control of
the major corporations is essential for our very freedom and liberty, but there
is a war on for control of the internet.
On one side are the Internet service providers (ISPs) — like
AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon. They see
it as a means of greatly increasing their profits at the expense of free access
for users, and are willing to spend large sums of money to lobby to get the
needed control.
On the other side of the war is everyone else.
The ISPs want to be permitted to slow down traffic from
companies that don’t pay special fees.
They could pick and choose what kind of service each user got. They also want the freedom to favor their own
offerings over those of their competitors.
Comcast could make it very difficult for Netflix to compete with the
Comcast alternative.
The big question is: Whose side is Tom Wheeler, FCC
Chairperson on? At this point it doesn't look good.
“The FCC's latest draft rules proposes banning ISPs from
blocking users' access to websites or applications but allowing some
"commercially reasonable" deals between content providers and ISPs to
prioritize delivery of some web traffic.”
Over a million people have provided their reactions to the
proposed rules including President Obama.
He took issue to the rules stating that he is in favor of “an open and
fair Internet."
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