‘Net Neutrality is the idea that all data is treated equal, regardless of where it comes from, or what type of data it is.

Over the past few years, certain providers have been fighting to create a tiered system, where they can charge more for different services from different people.

There is an in inherent problem with this however. Mainly that the companies who provide our Internet access also create competing products. (Comcast creates videos and has video on demand services, Bright House and AT&T have phone, and all have television).

If they can charge different people/companies different rates, because of content type, then that means that innovation and competitors will be stifled. Watch this short video to learn more about it.

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What is Net Neutrality was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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