What’s at the core of Net Neutrality? There’s people who can put this better than me, but at the heart of the debate is the issue that internet providers should have the right to distinguish all sorts of bandwidth usage in order to better manage their resources and provide better service. The concern is that companies like YouTube may literally clog the internets and it’s tubes.

The problem with this discussion is manifold, most of it in the technology front. What has been absent from the debate between network engineers and assorted geeks is the potential impact bandwidth or traffic discrimination may have on the rights of US citizens to use freely the net. In other words, not much has been done to clarify how our civil liberties offline will be kept intact online –without cable or telecoms availing themselves of their rights to trade secrets to infringe on Americans rights to free speech, free assembly, due process or the right to privacy online.

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