FCC and the internet

John McCabe-Dansted gmatht at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 17:03:05 BST 2009


On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>  What is Net Neutrality,

Let me google that for you:
   http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Net+Neutrality

This will give you a list of sites that will give you a more thorough
answer than I could provide.

> is an opinionated e-mail a
> violation of such a doctrine??

No but using deep packet filtering to censor opinionated e-mails may
be a violation of Net Neutrality. Turns out Net Neutrality has more to
do with prohibiting ISPs from censoring, rather than requiring them
from doing so. While governments have made numerous attempts to censor
the internet, this doesn't appear to be one of them.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted



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