Net Neutrality, Shall I Compare Thee To A Highway? A Showerhead?
The Federal Communications Commission says it's writing rules for the Internet to preserve the status quo.
To quote the FCC website: "The 'Open Internet' is the Internet as we know it." Open, in part, "because it treats all traffic that flows across the network in roughly the same way."
Some people fear Internet providers could change the flow by charging more for certain businesses, but it's a complicated issue.
And "net neutrality" is not a scintillating term, as even the man who coined it admits.
"You know I kind of agree it's boring; there's some power in sounding boring," Tim Wu says.
A professor at Columbia Law School, Wu happens to be running for lieutenant governor of New York. But he's best known for coining the term "net neutrality."
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