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
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A call for an open and natural internet. Broadband users have the right use the internet as they see fit. Without form of restriction or discriminator unless necessary by:
1. In accordance with any laws created by Federal, state or local laws. Or to comply with any executive order, warrant, legal injunction, subpoena, or other duties authorized by a government official.
2. Prevention of network congestion through “reasonable” network management.
II. All traffic and data should be treated equally no matter its sender, recipient or type of content. No such blocking or throttling shall be prohibited unless it is conflicted by federal, state, or local laws and regulations.
III. Service providers shall be prohibited from active pursuit of interfering with broadband users’ freedom to access content, across all devices, as by any monetarily gain or contractual gain.
IV. Spying software and tools (ex. Deep Packet Inspection) used by service providers should be prohibited unless absolute necessary by federal, state and local laws and regulations or by an authorized …show more content…
These principle came from Tim Wu’s paper first to list the term “Net Neutrality” and a paper by Giusy Cannabella, Raegan MacDonald and Jochai Ben-Avie, called Net Neutrality – Ending Network Discrimination in Europe.
The reason for such principles to exist is because the service and broadband providers who provided the internet to the public had and still engage in unjust and unreasonable business practices that discriminated against such users. 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”.
The cases of which data discrimination follow upon start with AT&T in the 1930s. AT&T engaged in discrimination by blocking third-party devices and attachments complaining entrants would pick profitable service and destroy the system of subsides built into the universal service system.3 In short AT&T was blocking third-part devices because they claimed that the people who provided third-party attachments would interfere with the service system subsidized by the government by picking and choosing a service or device only because of large monetary
A call for an open and natural internet. Broadband users have the right use the internet as they see fit. Without form of restriction or discriminator unless necessary by:
1. In accordance with any laws created by Federal, state or local laws. Or to comply with any executive order, warrant, legal injunction, subpoena, or other duties authorized by a government official.
2. Prevention of network congestion through “reasonable” network management.
II. All traffic and data should be treated equally no matter its sender, recipient or type of content. No such blocking or throttling shall be prohibited unless it is conflicted by federal, state, or local laws and regulations.
III. Service providers shall be prohibited from active pursuit of interfering with broadband users’ freedom to access content, across all devices, as by any monetarily gain or contractual gain.
IV. Spying software and tools (ex. Deep Packet Inspection) used by service providers should be prohibited unless absolute necessary by federal, state and local laws and regulations or by an authorized …show more content…
These principle came from Tim Wu’s paper first to list the term “Net Neutrality” and a paper by Giusy Cannabella, Raegan MacDonald and Jochai Ben-Avie, called Net Neutrality – Ending Network Discrimination in Europe.
The reason for such principles to exist is because the service and broadband providers who provided the internet to the public had and still engage in unjust and unreasonable business practices that discriminated against such users. 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”.
The cases of which data discrimination follow upon start with AT&T in the 1930s. AT&T engaged in discrimination by blocking third-party devices and attachments complaining entrants would pick profitable service and destroy the system of subsides built into the universal service system.3 In short AT&T was blocking third-part devices because they claimed that the people who provided third-party attachments would interfere with the service system subsidized by the government by picking and choosing a service or device only because of large monetary