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- Nov 07, 2020
Internet Quotes
A tool that connects and complicates in equal measure.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same, not offering preferential treatment to some websites over others or charging some companies arbitrary fees to reach users.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been - cable and phone companies would remain mere gateways to all sites, rather than gatekeepers determining where users can go and what innovators can offer them.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Network neutrality' is sometimes called 'Internet freedom' or 'Internet openness' and is a legal principle that would forbid cable and phone companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast from blocking some websites or providing special priority to others.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charter's merger sales pitch is pretty straightforward: it argues that it has always been too small to bully Internet companies, TV makers, and its own customers, so it has'un-cable' practices they hope to extend.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broadband companies can have great success offering access to the unfettered Internet.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020