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The Future of the Open Internet – and Our Way of Life – Is in Your Hands
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The Future of the Open Internet – and Our Way of Life – Is in Your Hands

Quincy Larson
Medium, 2017
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The Internet is a great equalizing force – a vast marketplace of ideas where anybody, rich or poor, can pitch a tent and attract readers. Yet, the fate of the open Internet is hanging by thread. Quincy Larson, teacher at freeCodeCamp, warns that net neutrality regulations, which the Trump administration has vowed to repeal, are the only barrier stopping corporations that want to “burn down the Library of Alexandria and replace it with a magazine rack.” If you use the Internet, getAbstract recommends you consider Larson’s somber forecast of society in a post–net neutrality era.

Take-Aways

  • Only three Internet service providers (ISPs) control the broadband Internet market in the United States: Comcast, Cox and Charter.
  • Based on the principle of net neutrality, current US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations limit the power ISPs can exert over users.
  • ISPs oppose net neutrality because it bars them from charging website owners a fee for speeding up their websites.

About the Author

Quincy Larson is a teacher at freeCodeCamp.

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