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you've probably heard a great deal about net neutrality and its importance and

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the consequences it'll have for your online experience but what if you don't know exactly what it is I mean is it

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some vague idea of the internet being exactly the same for everyone we all go

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to the same web pages does it mean that we're trying to turn cyberspace into

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Switzerland no in its simplest terms net

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neutrality means that all traffic on the Internet is given equal priority data

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travels along a series of tubes in little bundles called packets that's the

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internet when you download something the data is broken up into packets the

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packets take the quickest routes they can find over the internet then they're

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reassembled when they reach your computer into a coherent video or C meme

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or whatever else the way the internet has traditionally been set up is that

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all packets are treated equally by the servers and other equipment that handle

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them regardless of who's sending them who's receiving them and what they

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contain much like cars on a highway the speed limit isn't affected by who's

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driving or what's in the car so the net neutrality debate has been over whether

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isps or internet service providers should be able to start giving certain

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kinds of content priority over others for example Comcast and Netflix had a

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dispute over whether Netflix should pay Comcast for using so much of their

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bandwidth when Netflix initially refused on the grounds that Comcast customers

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were in their eyes already paying for the bandwidth Comcast throttled the

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speed at which Netflix could access Comcast's Network and their users that

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is to say the customers of both Comcast and Netflix started receiving lower

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quality videos and it was only after Netflix ponied up cash that Comcast

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restored full speed access well hold on a second lineus isn't it fair that

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Netflix pay Comcast something if their service uses up so much of the available

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bandwidth I mean doesn't someone have to pay for all the extra burden on the ISP

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well that certainly is one of the main arguments that people who are against

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strict net neutrality often use but there are quite a few arguments in the

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other direction that have really caused this debate to well rage on and on one

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of the most important arguments in favor of net neutrality is that isps could

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abuse their ability to charge content providers I mean suppose Comcast wants

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to make it super easy to stream programming from NBC a network that it

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owns but then slows competing video

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services to a crawl unless they pay a hefty fee in the United States the

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Internet isn't regulated as a public utility the same way that say phone and

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power companies are which means that Comcast could be free to do this in the

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absence of net neutrality regulations I mean could such a world lead to a cyber

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divide between the halves and the Have Nots I mean if the owner of some online

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startup wants users to be able to load her website quickly will she have enough

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in her Kickstarter funded coffers to pay all the major isps I mean would the isps

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abuse their power I'm not much for random fearmongering but I think that

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given their track record there might be something to the fears of pret

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neutrality Advocates about potential High tolls that isps could charge to

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access their tubes that could discourage web services that can't afford to pay

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extra potentially stifling Innovation

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but this video won't go too much further into that and is not intended to cover

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this topic thoroughly and in depth it's more of a prompt for you to do some

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further reading then if you feel so inclined send a letter to your elected

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representative to let them know how you feel because no matter where you sit on

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the network neutrality debate there's little doubt that it'll have profound

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consequences for everyone who uses the internet whether your thing is trolling

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