John Stewart Views of Net Neutrality

This is a really funny explanation of net neutrality from an recent episode of John Stewart. He puts it in a very entertaining explanation of his own views verses people against net neutrality. This is an old concept with what we are talking about in class, but in light of the great video we saw of him on Crossfire in class i thought it would be entertaining. He discusses the Internet Freedom act of 2009, which sounds like it would be a good policy but it gives the freedom to companies to control the internet. One of the biggest supporters was John McCain, who we have learned the only source of internet he uses is e-mail and that is only to an extent. This is a great video and i especially enjoy the closing comment John Stewart says. Watch it and see what you think!

against Net Neutrality

After last class I thought it was important to actually find out the other side of the argument dealing with net neutrality. As I began to research it was much harder to find reliable information against the concept of "Net Neutrality." There was a few ideas that support the banishment of Net Neutrality, but the main arguement is that there is already compition for faster speeds. With the rapid growing rate of the internet we need higher cable usage  to fullfill our needs, and the way to do that without money from our own pocket is to have a compition of companies trying to gain the consumors loyality so the companies would be the ones investing in these cables.  

Overall, I found that most people were for Net Neutrality and only corporations who would be dominate in the internet choices are for corporate takeover but most people find net neutrality the most equal to our countries beliefs.

After class when we discussed net neutrality and watched Obama discuss his views of it, I was curious to find something with McCain's standpoints. Net neutrality was a topic I hadn't really heard much about or understood before the readings, so I don't really think it was a topic John McCain would have brought up. I'm not taking any political sides in this, but I think it's safe and pretty neutral to say that McCain didn't really utilize technology as Obama did to reach the younger generations. Here's a video of McCain talking about the infrastructure of technology. It's interesting to watch him because it's pretty clear he isn't 100 percent comfortable with the subject matter.

Net Neutrality Discussion

What is Net Neutrality?

What is at stake for users?

for companies like google and Skype?

For cable and phone companies?

What I remember from 2006...

So after the small discussion we had on Monday about Net Neutrality and what Im assuming is going to be a larger discussion tomorrow, I remembered a video I actually posted to my myspace account when it came out in 2006. Its a funny video, not super informative but I think the point was just to get people to participate more.