Net Neutrality: The Implications Of Comcast’s BitTorrent Violation
This article at WebProNews only touches the surface regarding the issue Net Neutrality. While this is a political issue, there are profound implications with regard to how business is conducted in the future.
If Comcast, or any Internet Service Provider, has the ability and the legal wherewithal to ban sites from its users for any reason then that opens the door for large corporations to rule the Internet and dictate to the rest of us how we can conduct business, for what purposes we can conduct business, and with whom we can conduct business. An article at eWeek is more explicit about Comcast’s violations.
Think about this: Your ISP decides that it doesn’t like you watching Internet TV because one of its largest supporters is a local TV station. So the TV station and the ISP collude to block your access to any website that provides Internet TV. Would that seriously tee you off?
Well, this is essentially what the issue is about. Should your ISP decide what you have access to or not have access to? In areas where consumers do not have a choice about who their ISP might be, that would constitute an unfair business practice. I think in this case the FCC getting involved is the right thing to do. Net Neutrality is an issue all of us can care about. It’s about making sure the Internet remains a fair playing field.
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