Our first blog

Hi everyone. My name is Sharece. I am one of the four members of this blog that will be posting. This blog was started as an assignment for one of our college classes, Technology and Communication. This is a new experience for all of us. It's on an interesting topic, net neutrality. In this first blog I will be posting for J. (I will leave it to her if she wants to divulge her first name), who is away this weekend. She gave me this information to post before this blog was created.

What is Net Neutrality?

Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. The Internet has operated according to this neutrality principle since its earliest days. Indeed, it is this neutrality that has allowed many companies, including Google, to launch, grow, and innovate. Fundamentally, net neutrality is about equal access to the Internet. In our view, the broadband carriers should not be permitted to use their market power to discriminate against competing applications or content. Just as telephone companies are not permitted to tell consumers who they can call or what they can say, broadband carriers should not be allowed to use their market power to control activity online. Today, the neutrality of the Internet is at stake as the broadband carriers want Congress's permission to determine what content gets to you first and fastest. Put simply, this would fundamentally alter the openness of the Internet. Google doesn't want ATT or Comcast to block people from getting to Google. That's why they are FOR net neutrality.

AGAINST
Several experts weighed in against Net neutrality, calling it unnecessary regulation that hinders market forces at Tuesday's Wireless Communications Association International forum. "Net neutrality is corporate welfare for dot-com billionaires," said Scott Cleland, founder and president of Precursor LLC and chairman of NetCompetition.org, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington.

Here is a good article that J. gave me, that mentions both views of net neutrality.

So that's our group's first blog. We welcome your comments and participation! Part of our grade is how many people we get to view this blog and how many people comment on our blog. Please come back often as this blog will be updated with more information on net neutrality. Thanks! Happy reading!