Net Neutrality and Data Discrimination “They who can give up their essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin. When you sacrifice your freedoms for security you deserve neither. The same goes for internet freedoms. When you sacrifice the freedom and openness of the internet for any type of law you deserve nothing. The internet started on the basis of the words, free, open and neutral. These words later formed the term called “Net Neutrality” or the full form “Network Neutrality”. The most common and important principle for Net Neutrality is that internet service providers and governments should treat all data equally. Not discriminating or charging differently by user, website, platform, application, type or attached equipment, or mode of communication.
The term “Net Neutrality” or “Network Neutrality” came from a paper by Tim Wu called Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. In his paper he describes Net Neutrality as no service provider shall favor content of any kind over any other content. Content of which being no website, no application, and no content shall be blocked or limited by any service provider.
The principles of Net Neutrality has developed over the years and today the common …show more content…
What is called today as “data discrimination” which started long ago in the 1900s and even today there are still cases of data discrimination. Data discrimination is the act of selective filtering of information by service provider. Some forms of data discrimination can be called “Bandwidth Throttling”, “Capping” or “Bandwidth capping”, “Artificial Limiting”, and “Paid Prioritization”. Each of these definitions
The term “Net Neutrality” or “Network Neutrality” came from a paper by Tim Wu called Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. In his paper he describes Net Neutrality as no service provider shall favor content of any kind over any other content. Content of which being no website, no application, and no content shall be blocked or limited by any service provider.
The principles of Net Neutrality has developed over the years and today the common …show more content…
What is called today as “data discrimination” which started long ago in the 1900s and even today there are still cases of data discrimination. Data discrimination is the act of selective filtering of information by service provider. Some forms of data discrimination can be called “Bandwidth Throttling”, “Capping” or “Bandwidth capping”, “Artificial Limiting”, and “Paid Prioritization”. Each of these definitions