Why You Should Care About Net Neutrality

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This image does a good job illustrating what the net neutrality discussion is all about (thanks to Software Engineering daily).

When folks discuss the idea of net neutrality, there are a lot of terms around legislation like “Title I” and “Title 2” and regulatory bodies like the FCC and FTC that are discussed. I’ve linked to articles that dig into this in detail below. While those are interesting pieces of information, I’d like to spend time on why this is a matter of philosophy and principle and why this discussion is very important.

Here are 4 ideas we’ll spend time on today (the “executive summary” if you will).

* Freedom of expression isn’t a function of the values of a place but the structure of the information infrastructure.

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