Net Neutrality

Imagine if your telephone worked somehow "better" when calling people your telephone company preferred. Maybe you couldn't even call certain numbers THEY didn't like, or got crackly static-filled audio? That would be unreasonable, at least in most of the world!

Now imagine if your Internet provider did the same thing? Some sites -– the ones they preferred, perhaps owned, were fast and reliable, and others were -– well - less fast and reliable?

Net neutrality is the concept that Internet users can go to any Web site and run any Web application. This is how it's been for years -- literally forever. Apparently some broadband providers want to change that.

Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! are trying to encode Net Neutrality into law. Sounds like a good idea, but it's a complicated issue.

For example:
Many see this as a first step towards regulating the Internet.

Does Google, for example, get a free ride. Should they be paying for the traffic they generate?

Much more in this Computer World Article.

My knee-jerk (and probably correct) opinion :)
Net Neutrality forever!