Sunday, March 4, 2007

What Is "Net Neutrality"?

Net Neutrality is the principle that Internet users should have control over the contents what they use or watch. In other words, the network company such as Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft should not have any priority for the Internet contents that their own services are used for. For example, if Google treats well the webpage that is provided through Google’s network, this should be unfair. Since the beginning of the Internet service, this principle was very important and applied to many companies to be bigger. Also, major internet companies like Google follow this principle.

These days, however, it is a subject of the argument. In the U.S., the Congress was requested to give the permission that determines what comes first and fastest. It is because the largest telephone company wants to have the control over the Internet sources that makes more profit. Now this issue became more serious eventually, and this argument has not ended yet.

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