Monday, March 5, 2007

Net Neutrality

According to Google, Net Neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet.

According to Susan Crawford, The Internet's transport layer should not be shaped in accordance with particular applications but should rather provide only the transport service appropriate to the careful file transfer that was defined in the early 1970s as the Internet's canonical application. Timing of packet delivery is a form of anti-competitive discrimination. Open access would promote network neutrality.

Why people argue is that, for example, if someone paies more money to get faster Internet connection, one may be priored. This can be an invasion, so many people want to be equal.

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