Quick primer: Net neutrality means that an internet or wireless provider can’t allow some pieces of information to get to the user faster than other pieces of information. The fears are that a provider could either accept cash to send some pieces faster than others, or inhibit free speech by preventing information it didn’t like from moving, or from moving at the same speed as others. There is no better explanation than John Hodgman’s on The Daily Show.
Now, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is expected to announce Monday that what had previously been guidelines about net neutrality will soon become hard and fast rules
here’s hoping the FCC
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