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What is Net Neutrality and What impact would it have on Work at Home, online business opportunities, Internet Business and making money online in general?

What is Net Neutrality?

At its fundamental basic, Net Neutrality is the belief that information on the Internet should be treated equally. There should be equal access to information on the Internet. Internet users control what content that they want to see and that users online control what applications they wish to use online.

Imagine the broadband carriers dictating to you that you have to pay more in order to get equal treatment online. How would that affect your income online?

If, Net Neutrality is challenged by the broadband carriers, your experience online and the experience of billions of website pages could be degraded if multi-tiered services are allowed to prevail.  Here’s why?

Why You Should Be In Opposition To Net Neutrality?

There are those who believe that there aren’t enough broadband carriers to prevent the few broadband carriers from becoming bad agents. There isn’t enough competition among broadband carriers to make fairness a given.

As the prevalence of online gaming and rich-media content such as online video, there are some who feel that the Internet is becoming congested and that broadband carriers should be able to charge for a multi-tiered access to heavy users.

So, the question is, should heavy-user online sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pay extra surcharges?

Broadband carriers could degrade the user experience of a website in favor of another site that is paying them extra fees and in theory, the owner of the degraded website could move to another carrier. It would be easy for the few broadband carriers to favor one website or service over another, simply based on who is paying extra for the multi-tiered service.

In the United States, most of the broadband carriers are concentrated in the DSL (direct subscriber lines or telephone internet access) and cable Internet. Sure there is wireless Internet in the mobile and fixed access set-ups and satellite Internet, but the competition among them hardly warrants enough opportunities to give you a choice.

The Internet has been able to thrive and flourish from its humble beginnings, large and in part due to its openness and its users dictating what they want to visit online. Net Neutrality should continue and the U.S. government should lobby to ensure that it remains so.

If, you wish to do your part to ensure that the Internet remains in the hands of those who use it and not in the hands of the broadband carriers who would love to control your user experience online with its multi-tiered services, you can go to:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Public Knowledge

Open Internet Coalition

Hands Off

Save The Internet

Don’t hesitate and join in the fight for a free Internet. Your future online freedom and income depends on your participation.