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    The Technology Industry
    The Technology Industry
    The Technology Industry
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    The Technology Industry

    By Gunner Technology

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    Gunner Technology reviews the ins and outs of the technology industry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGunner Technology
    Release dateMay 25, 2018
    ISBN9780463536735
    The Technology Industry
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    Gunner Technology

    An AWS Partner specializing in JavaScript development for government and business.

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      The Technology Industry - Gunner Technology

      1 Net Neutrality in a Nutshell

      Want to find consensus on something? Bash the repeal of Net Neutrality and watch everyone come rushing to your side. Democrat or Republican, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone who isn’t pro-net neutrality. Interestingly, these same people probably will struggle to explain what net neutrality even is, let alone why they’re all for it. Let’s start with defining it first.

      Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication. For instance, under these principles, internet service providers are unable to intentionally block, slow down or charge money for specific websites and online content. There you go. Straight from Wikipedia. So let’s move on.

      Kidding.

      That definition does little to illuminate what net neutrality is for most people, so let’s start with an analogy. Let’s say that you live in a house with a driveway. At the end of your driveway is a little booth manned at all times. Whenever you go to leave your driveway, the person in the booth stops you before you can get on the road.

      Where you headed? the man asks.

      So you tell him you’re headed to Walmart.

      Excellent! the man says. Take this road right here.

      The road is brand new. It’s paved, spacious and provides a direct route to Walmart. So you head to Walmart, do your shopping and come on home.

      The next day, you go to leave again and the man stops you.

      Where you headed? he asks again.

      And you tell him you’re headed to your son’s house.

      Excellent! the man says. Take this road right here.

      But this isn’t the same road as yesterday. This looks like a pretty delipidated road, and it’s headed in the opposite direction of your son’s house. You try to explain to the man that your son lives right next to Walmart, so you’d like to take the same road you took yesterday.

      No can do, the man says, offering no further explanation.

      Without choice, you head to your son’s house, but the road is bumpy the whole way and the circuitous takes you three times as long as the nice road. But you go and come back because you don’t have another option.

      The next day, you go to leave your driveway yet again and the man stops you.

      Where you headed? he asks again.

      And you tell him you’re headed to Target.

      Ohhhhh…. the man says. That’s going to be a problem. I can’t let you on a road to Target.

      You object and explain the road to Walmart literally passes right by Target.

      Oh, well. I can let you use that road to go to Walmart, he says. But you can’t use that road to go to Target.

      Flustered you say you’ll go to Kohl’s instead.

      Excellent! the man says. That’ll be $10.

      You’re incredulous. Kohl’s is in the same parking lot as Walmart, you tell him.

      Oh, well. I can let you use that road to go to Walmart, he says. But you have to pay to use that road if you’re using it to go to Kohl’s.

      You’re head looks like it’s going to explode.

      You look pretty upset, the man says. So I’ll tell you what. For $20 a month, you can use that road to go to Walmart, Kohl’s, Target and your son’s house.

      Trying to make the best of a bad situation, you agree to the $20 a month.

      Great! the man says. So you’re off to Kohl’s now?

      Sure am, you tell him, but you explain that you’re going to stop at Publix on the way back.

      Yeah….. about that…. the man starts.

      You can see where this is going. If it reminds you of cable TV, you’re spot on. Interestingly, net neutrality as a regulation is much newer than the Internet. On February 26, 2015, the FCC ruled in favor of net neutrality by reclassifying

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