What is Net Neutrality and Why Does The Cable Company Want People To Vote It Down?

Question

There are Comercials Here In Minnesota from Comcast claiming if we Vote For Net Neutrality That they Will Make Us Pay More, Or Something Like That.

Answer 1

Once you get on the internet whether by dial up, DSl,cable or t-1all users have equal access. Your request to a search engine arrives and is put in line like everyone else. Money does not matter. If the President, or some billionaire or some corporation does a google search his search request arrives at the same time as yours he receives the same treatment and speed of response as yours, he waits in line like all of us. Hence the Net is "neutral" to the user making the request. The net does not differentiate one person from another. What Comcast wants to do is give some folks easier access allowing them to cut in line on the net if they pay more money...they want to make the net a toll road. Faster service to those that pay more. They say why can't I have better access if I pay more? The truth about access is that now people already can get quicker access by having DSL rather than dial up, cable rather than DSL etc. Comcast and the Media giants, ATT etc want to change all that so that when you arrive at the net, after the connection is made, if you could not pay the toll you would have to wait in line behind people and companies with more money ( and without a doubt more political clout / lobbyists in Washington ) than you on the toll road. They want to milk more money out of people to use the net, they want to make the net unequal and as a consequence, to use a retail analogy, you would see the disappearence of the mom and pop websites which would be crushed by the Wal Mart mega style type websites. You will stop hearing the voices of all the common people who have built and served the net well since inception, Why? Because the moneyed mega websites would have the best access and connection speeds and no one would want to wait on the slower websites, folks would naturally gravitate to the mega websites because of their faster connection speeds. So watch out for those deceptive Comcast ads... since when has Comcast been about saving you money anyway?? ...think about it, their motivation on this - GREED and stifling free speech and competition from the little guys on the web. DON'T LET IT HAPPEN - vote against the net toll road, be pro-net neutrality save yourself some $$ and grief over the years of your life of the internet. See www.savetheinternet.com

Answer 2

An example of net neautrality for example:

Microsoft hates Google, and pays Comcast a bunch of money to prevent people from going to google. So Comcast makes it extremely slow when using google, and makes MSN go a lot faster! Net neautrality would prevent comcast from slowing down a website or limiting it for their own desires.

Answer 3

Net neutrality, also called network neutrality, is the philosophy that network operators should not be allowed to prioritize content and services--particularly video--that come across their pipes.
Network operators counter that they deserve the right to charge premium fees to bandwidth hogs in order to offset their vast investments in infrastructure and to ensure the quality and security of their products.


That's what I found - hard to understand though.

Answer 4

yeah the cable companies want to offer there speed to big bussiness and regulate what speed an average person can download up to...SO in other words the big companies can go how ever fast they want and download how ever fast they want and in exchange us the normal household people get told we can only go one by one since we are not worth their bussiness.

Answer 5

Parody site that asks candidates to not "neuter the net"
http://www.neuters.net/