Thursday, October 10, 2013

Net Neutrality

After reading a couple of articles on net neutrality, I have to say I am confused.  To be perfectly honest, I had never even heard of net neutrality until now.  There are so many different aspects to this issue that it is almost impossible to know the right way to go with it.  To me, it seems like it should be decided on in more narrow pieces of the ideas.  I certainly don't want my ISP to be able to tell me what I can and cannot search on my own computers, but at the same time, I can understand why they don't want their customers to be able to use their services to undercut them.  I really did not understand the whole idea of classifying different services as 'telecommunications' or 'information services'.  That idea is lost on me because I don't understand why one 'service' can do things that others cannot or how the FCC can regulate certain things with one 'service' that they have no say over on another.  To me, it just seems like it would make more sense, especially with technology advancing as it does, to have a set of rules for internet, phone, tv and have services classified that way.  All the legal stuff aside, what good are all these court proceedings and congress sessions going to do if Google itself is not going to follow their own rules.  Like the Google employees say in their own forum 'it doesn't apply to minecraft servers', and 'they probably won't notice anyway'.  Given that Google itself feels that way, why waste everyones time and money?  At this point though, I'm pretty sure our government has way more important things to worry about!




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