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Net Neutrality - Update Senate Rejects

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by j.lupo 2 views

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Well the votes are in this year in the US Senate on Net neutrality rules. You can read the article at : http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060628/tc_pcworld/126280

Basically the vote was tied so the measure is rejected for this year. Companies are not going to be able to just dump information onto the interent on the networks built by other providers. If I understood the article correctly.

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by yobtaf

Am I the only person who thinks that handing over complete
control of the internet to a small group of corporations is a bad
thing.

This potentially has the same problem as restricting freedom of
speech. Only those who can afford to pay for priority will be
heard, not to mention that we will all be paying more for the
services we now expect. Obviously the cable owners will be able
to give their own services priority and the only companies who
can afford to pay for a faster streams will get any business.

I'm not against the cable owner making as much profit as they
can, but I don't buy the argument that they need to recoup their
investment. They know that their investment will will pay off big
time no matter what happens.

We put restrictions on our government, our children and even
ourselves. Why should the cable owners have be unrestricted?

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