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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN TECHNOLOGY
We MUST Protect the Internet
for Business.. for Politics.. for People..
Andreas Ekström is a futurist to pay you to prioritize their traffic.
and commentator on digital That means that if you are an internet
revolution. His passion is to service provider, who also provides
educate for digital equality phone services, you are not allowed to
and he aims to understand the say ”no way, Skype, you are our worst
companies and behaviours competitor, we are not going to let you
that have become culturally, run your thing in our cables”.
technologically and Without net neutrality, there would be
commercially drivers of change no way for startups to compete.
at all levels of society. But take it further. Imagine rich friends
of the current American president,
There is really no end to the massive bringing loads of cash to the largest
bore when you hear those words internet service providers of the USA,
again. Net neutrality. We should have with a request:
called it internet freedom instead. ”How about we give you all this
Because that is what it really is about. money, and in return, you make all
traffic to Fox News really fast, and
Let me just take you through the all traffic to CNN and The New York
basics. It’s easy. And remember: if Times really slow?”
you don’t feel sure about what net
neutrality means, you are among If we, the people, don’t step up and
friends – I would say that most people protect the un-hierarchical web,
have very vague ideas about it, where one site links to the next, where
even though the funniest man alive, every destination is reachable in the
British tv comedian John Oliver, was same way and at the same speed,
able to make a legendary segment where all bits are created equal –
on the issue that was actually both internet as we know it will be lost.
educational and hilarious at the same Internet will become cable tv.
time.
The policy battle over this is fierce in
Net neutrality is the principle that all the United States at the moment. But
traffic on the internet must be treated some countries in the rest of the world
equal. And… that’s it. That is really it. – India, for one – are taking the lead
in protecting the internet.
That means that if you own a
broadband network, you are not For business. For politics. For people.
allowed to ask Netflix or YouTube
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