Net Neutrality from a podiobook author point of view
The issue of Net Neutrality hasn’t gone away. It concerns me as a consumer of information over the internet and as a distributor of information over the internet, thought I haven’t been looking at the latter angle very much in all honesty.
Mark Jeffrey, author of The Pocket and the Pendant podiobook and person with possibly more pokers in fires than yours truly, has recently published a post on The Huffington Post about which does a good job of explain just what it’s all about — and casts some doubt on a recent propoganda campaign you might have seen from the Big Telcos.
In the article, he states:
And what is Network Neutrality? In a nutshell, it means that everyone connected to the internet is created equal (that sounds familiar, doesn’t it?) You are endowed by your service provider with certain inalienable rights to upload and download without bias or priority. EBay is no more or less important than your grandkid’s blog, for example.But the telcos want to change that. They want slap premiums on traffic online. And they want to make us pay tolls. If we refuse, then our quality of service will be crippled. And they want to charge ‘protection money’ to sites like Yahoo and Google simply to ensure these websites continue to load as speedily as they do today. And if they refuse … well, maybe these websites’ll have an accident, see? Maybe they’ll start to load slow — or not all.
Very worth the read and worth your time of passing around.
