My topic on this assignment is called Net Neutrality. So what is Net Neutrality? In simple words, charging a universal price for an internet connection with all types of content and the service. In another words, it does not matter what content or type of service they are providing, telecom companies should charge its users the same amount of money for the internet connection. Currently, there is generally network neutrality in the U.S. but there are no clear legal restrictions against this.
The Net Neutrality debate erupted in 2005, when AT&T Inc. suggested it would like to charge some web companies more for preferential treatment of their traffic. Google and Amazon said, against AT&T`s suggestion, that all traffic must be treated equally.
www.wearetheweb.org, www.sourcewatch.org, www.timwu.org, www.en.wikipedia.org, (2007). Recent Action on Net Neutrality. Congressional Digest, 86(2),45. http://168.156.198.98:2136
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There’s more to it…your last sentence captures most of it: More than money it has to do with the control of content: Who owns it? Who makes the rules? Internet should be virtually (pun intended) open source and information should not be paid for higher billing in searches etc.