Net Neutrality

The fundamental issue behind net neutrality is, whether companies like Comcast and ATT should have the power to determine which websites you use. If this law passed, these companies would have the ability to force you into using their sites. They would do this by making other, smaller sites that offer the same services, harder to access and by taking away their quality. This would severely limit your choices on the internet and could completely wipe out start up sites like Youtube. Right now all sites are treated equally, but if this law passed this would no longer be the case.

Both Yahoo and eBay are pro net neutrality. eBay has even gone so far as to send out emails to its customers, encouraging them to support net neutrality. Both companies believe that each site should be treated equally, and that there shouldn't be an extra charge for one site using more bandwidth than another.

On the opposite side of the debate is Verizon and ATT. Both of these companies that sites that use more bandwidth should be charged. These companies would also be able to influence what sites people use, by making their sites superior to another.

I am pro net neutrality. One of the best things about the internet is its lack of restrictions. It's not like when I turn on my tv and I flip through the channels and half of them are not available to me. I think the internet would lose a lot of this became the case. I love being able to use youtube, rather than the video player ATT DSL provides me with. The whole principle of the internet is to be able to have free choice. If they take that away from us, then we have lost the internet as we know it.