Along with many other sites on the internet, I've added a on-day, and on-time only pop-up in support of Net Neutrality.
If you click the X it will go away, and never return. But I encourage people, if they are not familiar with Net Neutrality, to follow the link, and read about the issue.
While I'm not entirely comfortable with the fact that today's campaign is organized by corporate "Big Content" (Netflix, Google, etc), I feel that net neutrality is important from the perspective of freedom of speech. Not having explicit common carrier laws for the internet raises the possibility of ISPs removing or limiting access to sites they dislike for whatever reason.
I know many readers and poster here are strong believers in free markets, and against government intervention, but here people have very little choice in their ISPs, and any market correction, if it happened at all, would take too long to account for any harm done.
That said, I'm not really doom-and-gloom about the whole thing, it's just an issue I feel deserves attention.
More info, and the arguments for and against are listed on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
If you click the X it will go away, and never return. But I encourage people, if they are not familiar with Net Neutrality, to follow the link, and read about the issue.
While I'm not entirely comfortable with the fact that today's campaign is organized by corporate "Big Content" (Netflix, Google, etc), I feel that net neutrality is important from the perspective of freedom of speech. Not having explicit common carrier laws for the internet raises the possibility of ISPs removing or limiting access to sites they dislike for whatever reason.
I know many readers and poster here are strong believers in free markets, and against government intervention, but here people have very little choice in their ISPs, and any market correction, if it happened at all, would take too long to account for any harm done.
That said, I'm not really doom-and-gloom about the whole thing, it's just an issue I feel deserves attention.
More info, and the arguments for and against are listed on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
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