WARNING!!--Net Neutrality in DANGER; Your Internet AT RISK!!
The internet that you know and take for granted is at risk! If Net Neutrality is destroyed, it will affect EVERYONE! Every internet user should be concerned. Here is a quick intro to Net Neutrality and what the FCC's vote to destroy it means for internet users like you and me.
What is Net Neutrality?
Net Neutrality is the principle which protects the openness of the internet, non-discrimination of internet service distribution & speed and equality of internet access for all. (Net Neutrality as defined by the FCC itself) #NetNeutrality #FCC
The FCC will vote to DESTROY Net Neutrality on December 14th. Internet Service Providers and Mobile Broadband Providers are already celebrating, since it gives them power to control the internet. Providers who have stated that they "respect and intend to protect the open internet," like Comcast, have already started positioning themselves and adjusting their verbiage to allow them reap the benefits of internet control that the dismantling Net Neutrality will afford them.
*What You Need to Know About Net Neutrality Now*
*Why You Should Care about Net Neutrality*
What to expect/fear if Net Neutrality is destroyed?
- Limitation of activities by subscribers, imposed by service providers/operators
- Internet users paying fees to access high speed internet, while those who cannot afford the fees must surf the internet at slow speeds
- Internet users will be channeled toward/ away from specific sites/content via speed, thus affecting/controlling traffic and even the economy
- Feeding of information to the public, rather than open access of information for the public to access at will
- Favoritism in providing of high speed internet
- Giving dangerous power and potency to Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
- An internet that will perpetuate & breed inequality among people and widen the class division
- Small businesses will be disadvantaged and made vulnerable to big businesses/corporations, who will outspend on internet to smother them out of business or into submission
- The beginning of CENSORSHIP!
- Many, many more implications that work against the greater good of freedom and the American Citizen at large.
If Congress allows Pai’s plan to pass, all that will be left of FCC oversight of broadband providers is a weak disclosure requirement: If Verizon, for example, wants to block content, charge sites to be viewable on its network, or create paid fast lanes, the company will simply have to tell its subscribers in their contract’s fine print. (Broadband providers won’t have to disclose, and the FCC won’t have control over, the sneakier ways they’ve found to mess with the internet.)
Enforcement will be left to the Federal Trade Commission, an agency that’s never enforced open internet rules and has no ability to formulate its own. The FTC won’t even be able to protect consumers against most net neutrality violations after the fact, and nor will it be able to protect consumers against greedy broadband providers.
*!! LIST of HISTORICAL VIOLATIONS of Net Neutrality--SEE FOR YOURSELF--lest we forget!!*
This article is meant to be a conversation starter; it was kept brief so that more people would scroll through the whole thing. More people need to be talking about Net Neutrality being destroyed--it affects all of us and our freedom and it has far reaching implications.
*American Civil Liberties Union on Net Neutrality Jeopardy*
*6 Ways to Protest the Destruction of Net Neutrality*
*Refresher on Net Neutrality*--Tech & Legal Terms
*What Actually Happens When Net Neutrality is Repealed*--DON'T GIVE UP!!
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Technology and Cyber Security
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Technology and Cyber Security
7yFirst and Foremost: The Federal Communication Commission is in the Executive Branch of US Government. The Executive Branch consists of the US President and The Cabinet (the entire presidential staff) in which the FCC resides. The FCC is an agency, a private company with the authority of the government, that assists in regulating broadcasts and communications in the US by enforcing the laws of the federal government. Right now, the head of the FCC is complaining that he doesn't like the laws he must enforce. Instead of resigning from the job, a job he likely said he wanted to do, the head of the FCC is trying to change the laws he was chosen to enforce. This would be like your local police force saying they don't want catch bad guys anymore although that is the job they asked to be hired to do and agreed to be paid to perform. Second: The Executive Branch has no power in the drafting, creating, or enacting laws. The President and The Cabinet enforce federal laws. Yes, the president has a single vote in approving or vetoing a law, but Congress still has the final say and can overrule the President's two cents at any time. Congress consists of the Senators and Representative of the citizens of the United States. Your congressman/congresswoman asked you for a job. They interviewed "campaigned" to get the job. They were voted into the job. Now, you as the employer/manager need to tell your employee what work they must do, oversee their work, redirect them if they are going the wrong way, and ensure your Senators and Representatives do the job they asked to take. If Net Neutrality dies, It will be because the people of the US were not in communication with their Senators and Representatives. 20+ years of previous work in Congress to get Net Neutrality in place will be put to waste. All those votes and discussions and hearings and oversight will have been for nothing. Third: The Judicial System also can't create or repeal a law. Again, that power is reserved for Congress. The Judicial System can only decide that a law is unconstitutional or that a law is not applicable in certain situations. A "win" in the Judicial System will not automatically make Net Neutrality ineffective or illegal. The worst that will happen is that a Supreme Court judgement may require Congress to take another look at the series of laws, definitions, and policies/procedures that made Net Neutrality possible. Net Neutrality in its current state would still remain in effect while Congress rehashed ideas. This does not mean that Net Neutrality would die. It could be bolstered, and again, that would be up to the citizens of the United States. Fourth and not Final: The end of Net Neutrality does not mean that private corporations will control data flow. The end of Net Neutrality means the US Government can re-enter the communication landscape and take a more controlling position on your private data. Depending on how the new laws are organized (if Net Neutrality is modified, overwritten, or repealed by new laws), the federal government may not need search warrants to access your data. The US Government may be able to control where your data goes and what happens to it during that time, such as screening it every time it moves across the US. Right now, the US Government is still in the middle of trying to better define how much access the US Government has to seize and search your private data along with when and how it can. The end of Net Neutrality will make it easier for the US Government to skip certain legal procedures and make copies of your private data with less oversight.
Consultant at DBP Innovation
7yIt will be a different model. The good and bad of it is yet to be determined. Hopefully a lot of the garbage sites will go away. The isps are already invading privacy and providing unwanted content. Cost will be competitive, large content delivers will finally have to pay their fair share. We may even be able to have recourse against unwanted content.
GRC Lead / Builder of proactive information security programs / Speaker / Good natured scold
7yKilling Net Neutrality will impose a very limited number of gatekeepers on innovators. Gatekeepers will not only pick winners and losers, but also will impose barriers to merely experiment on the Internet. No more visionary kids from humble backgrounds working out of their parents' garages to develop game-changing technology. If the FCC makes this change, it will mark a turning point from an Internet based on a free market model to one that can be best characterized as digital feudalism. Thanks for raising the alarm Lauren Saenz.
Senior Partner, Finance and Accounting Recruiting
7ywell put Bill.