Net neutrality explained
Transcript
- 1. What is “net neutrality” and why should I care?
- 2. Think of this space as “how much info can be delivered to you.” Notice, it’s finite.
- 3. You may be under the impression everything delivered over the internet has the same opportunity to get to you as fast as your connection allows.
- 4. Not true.
- 5. Some companies have struck deals with internet providers to have their content delivered via a “fast lane” of sorts.
- 6. And when there’s a fast lane, there’s a slow lane.
- 7. The FCC has come in favor of keeping internet bandwidth neutral in attempt to prevent companies from paying for preferential treatment
- 8. because they’re worried market forces will compel internet providers to devote more bandwidth to premium content providers able to pay for speed.
- 9. Letting Internet providers use “pay-to-play” would put startup sites and smaller companies at a disadvantage.
- 10. Today, 2/26/15, day, the FCC enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality, preserving an open Internet by prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or slowing content that flows across their pipes.
- 11. The internet will remain “open.”
- 12. Companies like Verizon and Comcast say the cost of playing by these new rules will force them to cut back on investments in new technologies, “stifling their ability to innovate.”
- 13. Don’t believe them for a second. You know what will drive these companies to invest and innovate, regardless?
- 14. Shareholders.
- 15. An open internet puts everyone in the same boat. Web developers everywhere must continue to meticulously refine their code to deliver robust content in as light and efficient manner as possible.
- 16. Thanks FCC Chairman, Tom Wheeler. Sincerely, Internet Users Everywhere
- 17. Sources: http://www.theskimm.com/skimm-guides/net-neutrality http://time.com/3723722/fcc-net-neutrality-2/ http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-everyone-was-wrong-about-net-neutrality