Sunday, November 10, 2013
Net Neutrality
Once upon a time, companies like AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and others declared a war on the internet’s foundational principle: that its networks should be “neutral” and users don’t need anyone’s permission to invent, create, communicate, broadcast, or share online. The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive. But today, that freedom won’t survive much longer if a federal court — the second most powerful court in the nation behind the Supreme Court, the DC Circuit — is set to strike down the nation’s net neutrality law, a rule adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2010. If the neutrality is to go, so does meritocracy because it depends on the deals that are struck with the phone services and web service providers, not how great technology and coding a certain company has. Unfortunately there are plenty of loophole to go around.
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Does this affect web development in any way? Or mobile application development since they are both over the internet?
ReplyDeleteI would think that it would affect website development and even app development. I guess we will just have to see how it turns out.
ReplyDeleteInternet phone quality depends on the speed of the internet. Make sure that it is fast enough to have reliable conversations.
ReplyDeleteWhen you are using internet phone services, you also have to make sure that you have great antivirus programs. They are known to be hacked and conversations listened to.
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