Net Neutrality

There’s a new battle looming ahead in the United States. A battle of over communications that sets cable and telephone companies against those who believe that the Internet is the last bastion of free and independent stream of thoughts and ideas. Corporate greed threatens the Internet, an open roadway for innovation and creativity, into becoming just another system controlled and corrupted by how much money can to be made."Network neutrality" is a voluntary but guiding principle of the Internet, which ensures that all users are entitled to access content and services or run applications and devices of their choice. It promotes open competition and improvement among services providers at the same time preserving the independence and accessibility of the World Wide Web. The Internet allows any user to act as their own personal network programmer unlike the cable companies who select content on our behalf.If the telephone and cable companies got their way, the Internet would go into a reverse revolution of sorts. The companies would make not only users pay access the Internet but they would make content producers pay for using their wires or "pipes’ to deliver it. They would limit their fastest services to those who would pay more discriminating in favor of their own applications. This would shut out or slow down competing services.The threat is real, major telecommunication companies such as AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon are planning to discriminate against the online content and services. Wanting to turn the Internet into a "pay-for-performance" market place.The Consumer Federation of America, Free Press, and Consumers Union ran a national poll that showed:*75 percent of Internet users are concern of not being allowed to choose an ISPs or being charged double for Internet services.*70 percent are concerned about ISPs blocking or slowing down access to Internet service or sites.*54 percent want Congress to intervene on the behalf of the principles of net neutrality.I am in total agreement with the principles of net neutrality. I am completely against major corporations that exploit the masses for their own corporate interest. This greed is what is bringing this country down. They not only hurt us, the American people, as well as the rest of the world by their actions but they ruin the future of coming generations. I believe that Congress needs to pass legislation to stop the corporate wolves from gobbling up and controlling all access to the Internet.