Net Neutrality

Have you heard about Net Neutrality? Basically, it's how the internet operates today. You pay an ISP for access to the internet. Web sites like Amazon and Google pay ISPs for access to the internet, albiet a bit more than you and I pay. The various ISPs are all interconnected so no matter what ISP you may have and no matter what ISP Amazon uses you can still get to them. This is called Network Neutrality, everyone is connected and no one's traffic is more important than anyone else's. The large ISPs (Sprint, AT&T, MCI, etc) do no want this, they want to be able to charge websites like Google or Amazon whenever the traffic comes across thier lines. So if you connect to the net through AT&T and pull up Amazon's website, which has to cross Sprint in order to get to Amazon's , Sprint wants to be able to charge Amazon. If Amazon doesn't pony up the fee then No Access. What it boils down to is that the ISPs want to be able to control what traffic runs across thier lines, the end result being that they want to control what you can access on the internet. This would be somewhat like how the cable companies operate, where you can get the sci-i channel if you have Cox but not if you have Comcast. This is a really BAD IDEA. I'm sure you can see why.

Tons more Info and a Petition you can sign at Save the Internet.