“Internet Neutrality” Bill Proposed
March 3rd, 2006 | 
Author: Senator Ron Wyden proposed a bill to stop the big internet providing bastards from doubling charging web designers and web sites for posting content.1
“Neutrality in technology enables small businesses to thrive on the Internet, and allows folks to start small and dream big, and that’s what I want to protect with this legislation . . .” the Senator from Oregon said.
Some broadband providers like Verizon Communications and AT&T Inc. have said they would like to charge more for services that use faster, private Internet networks, movie downloading, music downloading or just mega popular web sites, even though these companies are already paying for the bandwidth through thier own ISP’s and Web Hosting Providors. They also say that internet users would still be able to access any web site they want. What they don’t say is that although they may be able to acess a web site, the web pages would be blank if the web site owner doesn’t pay the extra fee’s. Some broaband providors that provide internet acess to home and business users are already blocking acess to entire top level domains that they don’t like. For instance Brighthouse blocks access to any web site with the top level domain “.tk” although they deny it. How do I know? Well that’s a story for a different day.
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