1. F.C.C. Seeks to Protect Free Flow of Internet Data Comments: Here's my take: if you provide service to the end-user, you only take money from the end-user. When providing said service, you don't look at where a packet is coming from, only where it goes. If your network can't handle it, you upgrade your network. Just because they say they're going to do it is no guarantee that it will benefit us. the real problems which allow these carriers to be discriminative still exist. that is to say that local monopolies, fraud and such still exist. The FCC are actually proposing rules that could potentially favor us, the consumers? I've only had 1 moldy sandwich today, so I can't possibly be hallucinating.

2. NET NEUTRALITY By: Kevin Sears

3. Net Neutrality Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet Open access is the basic principal of the internet Anyone can put a site on the internet about whatever they want it to be about. When people try to charge for acces to a certain part of the internet, it goes against the basic princables of the internet.

4. Common Carrier Common Carrier is the principle that postal users should be in control of what packages they send and recieve The ability to send anything through the mail is the concept of the postal service, they should not be able to control what you send (besides size restrictions) Anyone can send anything throught the mail If the postal service were to control WHAT is sent or WHERE its sent to, it goes against the basic principal.

5. Explanation The internet is a huge superhighway Anyone can access any information on the net Big companies are trying to put up toll roads on the highway even though we already pay for internet access We still have acces to the sites, but if were not paying what they require, they make the quality horrible and slow things way down. Not cool......

6. ESPN360.com ESPN linked deals with big ISP's so only their customers could view the ESPN site. The ISP's pay ESPN a certain amount of money to have access to the site. A group of small ISP's filed a complaint to the FCC against ESPN saying they are breaking the fundamentals of the internet. Should the FCC have the power to tell them what to do?

7. Discussion Here's my take: if you provide service to the end-user, you only take money from the end-user. When providing said service, you don't look at where a packet is coming from, only where it goes. If your network can't handle it, you upgrade your network. Just because they say they're going to do it is no guarantee that it will benefit us. the real problems which allow these carriers to be discriminative still exist. that is to say that local monopolies, fraud and such still exist. The FCC are actually proposing rules that could potentially favor us, the consumers? I've only had 1 moldy sandwich today, so I can't possibly be hallucinating.

8. Class Discussion Million dollar question: Should the government intervine or should we let the restrictive ISP's fail?

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