| Also known as a Internet
neutrality, network neutrality is one of the
Internets founding principles that
forces Internet service providers and other telecommunications
companies to not tamper with the data that is traveling over their
network backbones and pipes. This
allows for all types of websites and content to get the same type of
speed and quality. Many companies and people believe that removing
network neutrality would be the end of the Internet as it would
allow big companies and media sites to pay major Internet Service
Providers (AT&T, Bell South,
Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon,
etc.) to give them priority bandwidth
causing all other pages, sites, and content to load slower. In a
sense making Internet Service Providers the gatekeepers of the
Internet allowing them to choose how web pages load.
However, major Internet Service Providers and other individuals
argue that this type of action is needed as the the stress on major
Internet backbones increase with the popularity of Internet videos
and file sharing.
- Save the Internet
is a great website that contains extensive information about
Network neutrality as well as methods you can petition congress
to help protect it.
Also see: QoS,
Internet,
Network definitions
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