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Originally Posted by Gary7
I agree with JourneyOfLife.
In my opinion, net neutrality should not be made into a political topic.
Here are four examples of violations of net neutrality:
- In 2007 Comcast blocked people from sharing digital files of the King James Bible and public-domain song recordings. (Fox News)
- In 2007, Comcast started blocking its customers from trading files on BitTorrent (peer-to-peer file sharing) by intercepting the data transmitted between the user downloading a file and the file’s host website and thus disconnecting the user from the host. (Fox News)
- In April 2012, Netflix charged that Comcast was restricting access to popular online video sites, in order to promote Comcast's own Xfinity TV service, giving Comcast product an unfair advantage against other Internet video services. (PC Magazine)
- In September 2012, AT&T was accused of violating net-neutrality rules, by restricting use of the video-conferencing Apple application "FaceTime" to certain customers. The application which could be used over Wi-Fi signals was restricted to only be used over cellular connection for customers who have a shared data plan on AT&T and excludes those with older unlimited or tiered data plans. (New York Times).
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If people side with Comcast and AT&T in the above examples and truly think what these companies did was justified and legal, then they should not support Net Neutrality.
If people think that Comcast and AT&T in the above example were doing illegal actions and were unjust in doing so, then they should support Net Neutrality.
The internet was created back in the 1960s based on the principle of net neutrality. It is cases like these where companies are challenging this principle for their own financial benefit and negatively impacting the expectations of users.