Net Neutrality: a small word followed by a big word. This always seems to mean trouble. Now Net Neutrality has been a pretty hot-button issue. Even Anderson Cooper felt it was important enough to talk about. But even Anderson Cooper, who I know as “the Arctic Fox,” has no idea what Net Neutrality is. If anything, just like every other journalist out there, he simply regurgitated the same idiotic blurb off a teleprompter. “Net Neutrality is a policy that maintains the freedom of the Internet.”
What is Net Neutrality really? Something you don’t really bring up at cocktail hour. Why? Because it’s a lot more complicated then simply keeping the Internet free.
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A lot of critics say that Net Neutrality is the biggest invasion into freedom of the Internet since it’s creation.
Ironically, the one entity that is all about controlling freedom, the government, isn’t even really involved in this one. The organization that has the ability to fundamentally change the way the Internet is delivered to you is your ISP (Internet Service Provider). You know, those people who send you loving messages about paying your bill every month, the ones with ads with brightly colored maps covering 97% of all Americans. Yes, those guys.
Net Neutrality isn’t an issue of what’s on the Internet; so don’t worry about your porn subscription. What Net Neutrality affects is how that content is served to you. It happens to be that the company you get Internet from probably provides television, phone and maybe even cellular service as well. Especially in the case of AT&T and Verizon, pretty much anybody who likes money has one of those nifty triple play plans.
Read the full tech column at the Cornell Daily Sun.
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