Net Neutrality: It's About Fair Access to All On the Information Superhighway
...Not Just an Interestate vs. Toll Road
Today, Verizon Wireless declined to allow a political campaign to send text messages over their network. This was for a campaign where the receipients of the text messages had explicitly signed up to receive them. But the corporation said that the messages were too controversial.
Most telecommunications companies have opposed net neutrality saying that it would prevent them from building a express delivery "toll road" that provides selected cusotmers with faster or guaranteed service for delivering their content (for extra pay, of course).
But, this example illustrates the importance of network neutrality in treating all internet traffic equally, regardless of content or origin.
Update: Verizon has reversed themselves and are now allowing the campaign.
