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Written by Nick Hess
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Saturday, 01 May 2010 |
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Net Neutrality is the principle that has allowed for the remarkable development of the internet. Net Neutrality is the principal that a service provider (Comcast for example) must allow all users to access all other users equally. Net Neutrality has been under direct threat due to the actions of the big telecommications companies. In April 2010 a federal court ruled that Federal Communications Commission did not have the authority protect the rights of internet users. This decision legitimized actions of telecommunications providers that directed users serches towards their own properities and sometimes not at all to thier competetors. The internet will be a much sadder place if the telecommunications companies get to decide what sites get to be accessed by the average internet user. Over two million people have decided that the FCC does have the right to regulate the internet and have taken concrete steps to correcting the flawed legal decision. The primary organizion working on this is savetheinternet.com. At their website you will find much more information about this issue as well as action steps.
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