gHacks technology news » save the internet http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:17:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Death of Net Neutrality the clear number 1 fearhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/21/death-of-net-neutrality-the-clear-number-1-fear/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/21/death-of-net-neutrality-the-clear-number-1-fear/#comments Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:53:58 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/21/death-of-net-neutrality-the-clear-number-1-fear/ This poll results did not came unexpected: 41% of all voters stated that they feared the death of net neutrality the most, followed by trojans and virii (17%), spyware, hackers and nothing (10% each), phishing (5%), spam (4%) and finally Worms with 3%.

This is an overwhelming result and I thought I explain the net(work) neutrality concept for the ones who do not know what it is. Internet providers do one thing, they provide access to the internet and make sure that you receive all the data that you request. It does not matter if you surf to the website of a big company like eBay (amazon, Microsoft) or to my blog (hehe, or even smaller websites). All data get the same treatment, none is preferred over the other.

The providers (Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner, Comcast, and others) want to change the way the internet works. They want to decide which sites get a fast data transfer, which sites get a slow one and which get none. What this means is clear, the more you pay the faster you go. This also means that they cold favor their own services over the ones of their competition.

Take a look at this funny video of the daily show.

Take a look at the save the internet website if you are living in the USA and want to help fight this.

The new poll wants to know about your main activity on the internet: Communicating (like icq, chats, forums), Content (creating websites, animations), downloading (Linux distributions, freeware), Gaming (online gaming, casinos, poker), Research (university, work, school) or Shopping.

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