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Net Neutrality - Definition

The understanding and agreement to deliver all content, regardless of creator, hosting service, type, or preference at the same equal speed as any other web-available content accessed by customers of any Internet Service Provider, without additional cost.

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While a year behind, this should be a clear cut guide to not only what Net Neutrality is, but additionally why you should keep supporting it.

A few resources:

theopeninter.net eff.org battleforthenet.com

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In case you guys didn’t completely understand it, here’s a pretty simple explanation of why Net Neutrality matters and how the new rules work.

Distilled down to the basics, it's using the regulations of Title II common carriers (previously only applied to Telecommunications companies) to regulate ISPs from discriminating data streams and purposefully slowing them down. (which they've been guilty of doing with both Peer-to-Peer [P2P] connections and Netflix, in order to further profiteer on both ends)

Now, this is actually for the best, because it'll only be regulating the ISPs, not the actual content of the internet, which means this digital place is going to remain open and free, at least for the moment. But given that power corrupts and makes some people complete assholes in the name of money, someone's going to attempt to strike back at these rules. But should you want to do something good for everyone's sake, there's a few things you can do.

Battle For the Net (https://www.battleforthenet.com/) has a pre-written script for an email to send off to congress about how they're going to only piss off the public more if they decide to fight this. Visit their website, and you don't even have to sign up for a mailing list to do it.

If you want a visual representation of what Net Neutrality would look like, The Open Internet (http://www.theopeninter.net/) has a homepage that will explain everything in no uncertain terms.

But in the event that you guys want more info on both Net Neutrality and tech issues that you can help with in an attempt to not have companies frak things up in the forseeable future, you can visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)'s Facebook page, or go to their site here: https://www.eff.org

Trust me, it’s important that you do something.

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Doesn't that mean it spreads well instead?

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As much as I admire his reasoning, I personally went the other direction with Stickiness and Spreadability. TED Talks have a much bigger place to spread and are only as sticky as they are long. Facebook is a hub for spreading, but has plenty of stickiness. How many hours do you dedicate a day with it open?

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Facebook is sticky.

While it's often thought of as a time waster, it's become more than that. It is specifically is engineered to be the hub of social activity between personal  clicks of friends, family, and other groups. By constantly refreshing the feed with the most interacted or newest content in someone’s personal profile, any user could scroll endlessly through Facebook and not reach an end in a distinguished time period, prompting people to “Like” or stay on the page longer. Furthermore, by using the auto-play videos, movement and related content can catch the eye of someone trawling through the newsfeed and spur even previously unintentioned interaction. With the data from people’s likes in music, food, television, or just culture, the feed becomes tailored to keep someone’s attention for as long as possible. While still being a resource to spread news, information, and point to noteworthy items to look at, each page opens in a new tab, keeping facebook open at the same time, and suggesting further reading once the new page has been closed.

The truth is that it's not just a time-waster, it's designed to suck away your life endlessly.