Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the web has a blog (subscribed) and has weighed in a couple times on the importance of net neutrality, yesterday writing:

Net neutrality is this: If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level.

That’s all. Its up to the ISPs to make sure they interoperate so that that happens.

Net Neutrality is NOT asking for the internet for free.

Net Neutrality is NOT saying that one shouldn’t pay more money for high quality of service. We always have, and we always will.

If you didn’t/don’t understand the importance of net neutrality based on anything you’ve read to date — here or elsewhere — perhaps the inventor of the web can persuade you to its importance.

On Tuesday I mentioned an ebook that focuses on a $200 billion fraud perpetrated by the telecos on the American people. This book is free for download until Monday and worth mentioning again. It will be selling for $20 USD after that. Even if you have no time right now to read it, at least go download so you can check it out later. One of my friends said he probably wouldn’t have time to read and then started commenting on it to me in IRC when he checked it out.

Net neutrality is an important issue to everybody that uses the internet now or will use it in the future.

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