Showing posts with label Net Neutrality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Net Neutrality. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Here's What the End of Net Neutrality Will Mean to All of Us

by Nomad

 Net Neutrality

The End of the Internet as We Know It?

In countries like Iran, Russia, and China, open internet access depends very much on the whims of the government. Through a wide variety of laws and administrative regulations, internet access in such countries is strictly limited. Such censorship has undermined the revolutionary promise of virtually-unrestricted openness for all global citizens.

In the West, the openness of the internet has been a source of pride and a benchmark of the kinds of freedom of expression and access to information that can be found only in liberal democracies.
However, soon that source of pride might soon become a source of shame.