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  • Hello Internet,

  • Enjoying your Internetting session? Perhaps watching this video with lots of tabs open

  • and full of interesting things to check out. The Internet is amazing and that's because

  • of the rules which govern how it works, an important one of which is Net Neutrality:

  • treating all data equally.

  • But some Internet Providers want to ditch this rule to insert themselves betwixt you

  • and your data as the most meddlesome middlemen in human history -- to their benefit and our

  • detriment.

  • How? Well think of the Internet as a series of pipes. Some are ocean-and-continent spanning

  • pipes through which vast rivers of data flow.

  • You don't get access to those -- they're very expensive, and you couldn't handle it anyway.

  • But you do have a little pipe that connects to the big pipes, through which you can pull

  • down and send out data. Your pay your Internet provider to maintain this pipe.

  • This rule means that your little pipe, cares not what flows through it: cat videos, discussion

  • forums, calls or games. Whatever you're doing, you're using the whole pipe to do and no website

  • gets preference over another.

  • Everyone wants faster Internet, but that requires more metaphorical pipe in the ground, the

  • building of which is slow and expensive.

  • Now you may have heard your Internet provider on the news talking about how this rule prevents

  • them from building 'fast lanes' for special kinds of data -- they want you to think they're

  • expanding your access to the information superhighway. But removing this rule also gives them the

  • power to speedbump the existing roads and charge more to use the 'fast' lane that was

  • just what you had before.

  • The power to preference some data over others is the power to favor one video site over

  • another and to limit a tiny part of the pipe for the video you're watching right now or

  • trying to anyway.

  • We've been through this before: and constrain other companies in similar ways. Take the

  • electricity. You pay for a certain amount and when it arrives in your house you can

  • do with it what you wish. The electricity company doesn't get to decide that rather

  • than build more power plants it's going to dim your bulbs and then offer a 'brighter

  • bulbs' monthly subscription. And so it should go with the Internet. Watts are watts and

  • bits are bits and we'll always need more and more.

  • And preserving this rule for the Internet has much wider impact than just if some company

  • takes more of your coins. Not to be overly dramatic here, but preserving data equality

  • may be one of the most important issues in a generation. Because without this rule Internet

  • providers could cripple competitors they don't like.

  • Ever notice the same company that sells you internet also sells Cable TV and Landlines

  • -- stuff The Internet totally replaces? Without data equality your Internet Provider could

  • narrow the pipe for competitors until they either go out of business, pay the meddlesome

  • middleman, or both.

  • It's like if one store in town super-promised to pay for fast roads everywhere as long as

  • the town gave them absolute power over all the roads no backsies. If you agree to that

  • deal don't be surprised when years later all traffic to them is fast and free while the

  • roads elsewhere are slow and neglected.

  • This town is basically the Internet without net neutrality which some Internet Providers

  • would love, but actual Internet citizens, not so much.

  • Having the pipes treat all data the same lets one guy with a good idea and a bit of programming

  • knowledge make something today that's seen by millions tomorrow. But only because his

  • data is treated equally with everything else in the pipes.

  • An Internet that treats data equally is an internet that continues to shower us with

  • wonder. But an Internet where middlemen pick and choose what comes through the pipe is

  • an Internet of stagnation for all and profit for few. Which is why some Internet providers

  • will always want that control, so the cost of preserving our awesome Internet is eternal

  • vigilance on the part of good citizens to defend Net Neutrality.

Hello Internet,

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互聯網公民。捍衛網絡中立 (Internet Citizens: Defend Net Neutrality)

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