Probing Question: What is Net neutrality?
Release Date: 2008-05-02 Original Link: http://presszoom.com/story_144768.html “Internet Freedom, under attack. What do we do? Stand up, talk back,” shouted a group calling themselves the Raging Grannies, outside the Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. Inside, the Federal Communications Commission prepared to hold a public hearing on broadband network management practices, a topic most people might not expect to draw protesters. (PressZoom.com) – “Internet Freedom, under attack. What do we do? Stand up, talk back,” shouted a group calling themselves the Raging Grannies, outside the Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. Inside, the Federal Communications Commission prepared to hold a public hearing on broadband network management practices, a topic most people might not expect to draw protesters. At the heart of the Grannies’ complaint is the issue of “Net neutrality.” Google and Microsoft, among others, favor it; telecommunications firms such as Comcast and Verizon
