The Truth About Net Neutrality (Part 2/2)

See Part 1 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdxSKhqmd40

This is a video that we created as part of a term project for a CS class at UT Austin on the contemporary issue of our choice. I chose net neutrality because I think it's often misunderstood and not enough people know about it.

A lot of the videos out there are either inaccurate or strongly biased towards one side or the other. While I strongly lean towards net neutrality and light legislation, I aim direly to present both sides as åwell as I can in this video and also explain the issue as clearly as possible.

It was over 50 hours of work and I know it's not near perfect but I hope you enjoy it anyway.

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[lostbuffalo]

Now that the telcoms have spidered therir networks into the public net, They have the capability to forge agreements with other telcoms to establish fully private networks should the neutrality laws be removed

They are trying to privatize the public/private internet in the same way software companies took over open source code by assimilating it into private license Programmers started over from scratch copylefting the new opensource material so that it could not be assimilated and restricted

[lostbuffalo]

The Telecoms don't own all of the pipes...

They own some of the pipes

a good portion of the internet was built and is maintained with public funds.

This is why the laws require no capital discrimination because the internet belongs to the people and the telcoms have been given the privilege of adding their networks to the public network ad charging access.

The telco's dont own alot of the pipe they lease capacity from wholesalers like level 3 communications.

[notrandom2]

Google - telecom 400 lobbyists

The phone and cable industries are spending tens of millions of dollars on more than 400 Washington lobbyists.

Their mission is to consolidate industry control over the Internet, before the public (and public interest advocates like Free Press) gets a seat at the table