Twitter is a public domain which allows any user to tweet any message in 140 characters in real time. This is taken very seriously. Press conference‚ interviews and anything involving printed media or internet which connects globally is considered public domain. So it is completely reasonable to prohibit trash-talking opponents on twitter. It is not ethical and definitely not professional to trash-talk on Twitter. It is limited to playing ground and rightly so for various reasons. It will take the
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Chapter 8 of “Blown to Bits” talks about the how in the beginning of TV and radio‚ it was easy for the government to control and regulate what the public could see and hear. They could easily manipulate what information that the public has access to. Now in recent events‚ people can easily get access to information through the power of the internet. Since there are so many ways for people to get access to information‚ the FCC has been limited to what they can regulate‚ and also how much they can
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Net neutrality means that an individual should be free to access all contents which include all websites and online services equally. Whenever an individual logs into internet‚ he should be able to access any data that is provided on the internet. (Hahn‚ R. W.‚ & Wallsten‚ S. (2006)).The main stress of this concept is that Internet service providers (ISPs) should not control access to different sites or services for their benefit. Usually ISPs stop users from accessing some particular sites or even
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net neutrality pros and cons - pros and cons of net neutrality The following article will throw some light on the theory of net neutrality‚ with exceptional emphasis on net neutrality pros and cons‚ in sequence to make the readers conscious of this theory of Internet guideline and regulation. Over the last decade or so‚ the net neutrality debate has got all the more intense‚ particularly with numerous countries contemplating the idea of introducing a legislation about the same. With certain regulations
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Imagine living in a world with internet restrictions. What is the problem with congress removing net neutrality if company’s say they will not block or slow down access to content on the internet? On the one hand‚ supporters of net neutrality argue that only large companies would be able to afford the faster internet speeds. Thus‚ reducing traffic to smaller businesses because of throttling and that content control could lead to content or site discrimination. On the other hand‚ opponents contend
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The term Net Neutrality gets passed around a lot‚ but what exactly is net neutrality? Net neutrality is actually just a term saying that the internet data is equal and open to anyone to anything without any discrimination. That means network providers‚ also called ISPs‚ and the government can’t favor or block certain websites‚ giving the people the freedom to access anything they want on the internet. Net neutrality has been an issue of the technology world for years. People have been debating
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Why Abolishing Net Neutrality Was a Bad Idea With the recent abolishment of net neutrality‚ an enormous discourse has risen about the legality and ethics of the abolishment of the Obama-era law. Although many argue that net neutrality is not useful for the United States‚ I think that net neutrality is needed in the interest of citizens. It preserves the internet as a public good and brings important economic benefits. While the opponents of net neutrality argue that the abolishing it will help the
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Early yesterday morning‚ I saw that Cecilia Kang at the Washington Post had a story up about the years-long fight for white spaces entitled: Tech‚ telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public WiFi networks. It struck me as odd‚ because so much in the article seemed... wrong or misleading. The main part about efforts to finally do something with the old TV spectrum isn’t anything new at all. We first wrote about the FCC "proposing" this back in 2004 and have covered it a few times since
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Have you ever heard of Net Neutrality? Net Neutrality is the principle that internet user have access to all contents on the internet regarding the source without blocking for a fee. This means the internet is free to use and you don’t have to pay to use a certain amount of websites you need‚ unlike cable where you have to pay for a package with 60 shows when you only use about 15 or 10 shows. But there has been some events where people have used company products and bootlegged them to where people
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What is it‚ and how does it affect you? Net neutrality is defined as‚ “the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source‚ and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.”[1] In better terms‚ it is what allows the average person have open access to the Internet‚ without censorship or restriction of ideas. Net Neutrality is the Internet’s freedom of speech. Recently‚ many bills–up to 10[2]–have been proposed
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