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What is Net Neutrality? Why should I care?

"Net Neutrality means that Internet service providers may not discriminate between different kinds of content and applications online. It guarantees a level playing field for all Web sites and Internet technologies. But all that could change."

This is a short section from a February 21, 2014 article published in the New Republic.

Obama's FCC Isn't Really Doing Anything about Net Neutrality, BY JOHN B. JUDIS

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Discrimination could lead, for instance, to an internet where some content providers or “edge providers” like Amazon were able to purchase higher speed, higher resolution service at the expense of their competitors, or where Comcast, eager to force consumers to use its own movie services, could penalize Netflix. In an extreme, but not inconceivable case, discrimination would penalize certain kinds of political speech over others. Net neutrality would mean that the large internet providers could not discriminate."

http://youtu.be/L11kLmWha6o

Still not sure what the big deal is and want to learn more? Here are a few ways to get more information and to possible have some questions answered.

1. Read the full New Republic article, read it here!
2. Visit Free Press's Save the Internet website.
3. To join this conversation and to learn more, come to this public event at Tufts University on Mar 25 on Net Neutrality and the Future of Our Internet Access.

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