A recent poll, commissioned by eBay found that the majority of Canadians support the notion of “net neutrality”. While most had no idea what the term “net neutrality” means, they agreed that they should be able to access publicly available content on the internet with no additional fees imposed. In fact, most of those surveyed were in favor of legislation that guaranteed net neutrality, prohibiting ISP’s from charging for access to certain content or sites, legislation that confirms the right of Internet users to access the publicly available content of their choice.
Unfortunately, here in the land of the free, most Americans don’t know what it is or even care about it. The strong capitalist nature of this country makes people think that others should be able to make money off anything they feel they can. However, there would be major repercussions from an Internet where content whose providers paid off the ISP’s received preferential treatment. For one, the small time website would not be able to compete with the Internet giants (Amazon, Google, Yahoo!, eBay, etc… though eBay seems to be in favor of net neutrality, probably so they don’t have to pay off the ISP’s just to prevent their site from being throttled).
Once again, I urge you to write your senators and representatives in Congress and tell them how you feel. Ask them to support net neutrality through legislation. Net neutrality is not a dead topic, even though a blogger at CNet thinks it is.
Survey Finds Canadians Support Net Neutrality Law (Slashdot)
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