week6: What is the "Net Neutrality"?

week6: Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality, also called Network Neutrality or NN, is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. The Internet has operated according to this neutrality principle since its earliest days indeed it is this neutrality that has allowed many companies., including Google, to launch , grow, and innovate. Fundamentally, net neutrality is about equal access to the Internet. In our view, the broadband carries should not be permitted to use their market power to discriminate against competing applications or content. Just as telephone companies are not permitted to tell consumers who they can call or what they can say, broadband carriers should not be allowed to use their market power to control activity on line. Today, the neutrality of the Internet is at stake as the broadband carries want Congress's permission to determine what content gets you first and fastest. Put simply, this would fundamentally alter the openness of the Internet.