As we talked about in the class today about net neutrality in class today, when I came home I researched the topic out of curiosity. While researching I came upon this article from the NYTimes.

It appears that FCC after all start to move towards a Net Neutrality plan. During the vote today the plan was moved forward with a 3-2 win. So what does it mean to have Net Neutrality plan. In the article it explained:

“That essentially means that as long as an Internet service provider does not slow down the service that a consumer pays for, the provider can give faster service to a company that pays to get its content to consumers in an unimpeded manner.”

While we were doing the role playing game today about the carriers controlling controlling their bandwidth, it appeared who will win the game at the end: large corporation with huge amount of money. Very soon we will start to see it’s effect on our lives. Netflix is already increasing its fee towards new members to $8.99. At the end the consumer will get effected in long term.