Outside net neutrality
Recently there was a significant event in the Internet industry. The US Court of Appeals effectively authorized American Internet providers to not respect network neutrality. It would seem, how can this relate to ordinary users? Now we will try to find out.
The majority of ordinary people and simple Internet users are hardly familiar with the concept of net neutrality. This is a relatively new and still little-studied area on the World Wide Web, especially in Russia.
When Mark Zuckerberg created the Facebook social network at the Harvard University dorm, access to it was automatically available on any computer in the world. Now, for a moment, try to imagine that you may simply not have such an opportunity, since an Internet provider with full rights may reduce traffic, or restrict your use altogether.
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To make it easier to understand, network neutrality can be compared to the urban highway. Previously, you could go on it quietly, overtaking and rearranging if necessary. And now imagine that on this highway they opened an additional lane for the chosen ones, or made it a paid one, or even banned traffic on certain roads on the highway. It would seem a banal example, but after a court decision in the US, Internet providers will have the ability to speed up specific network lines and slow down others, or take a separate fee for access to some resources.
As we have said, on the American Internet changes will be significant. If you give the most pessimistic assumptions, then such giants as Skype, Google or WhatsApp will simply become paid resources. As for Russia, things are much better. The changes will be minimal, since US law has nothing to do with Russian. Everything will remain the same, but what about the new startups? After all, many are eager to create a new Facebook or Instagram, but now if it becomes necessary to pay taxes to Internet service providers, it will be much more difficult to implement. Internet providers will essentially become the main players in the global network and will themselves create its culture. According to experts, with the abolition of network neutrality, the Internet will lose innovation and will slowly die. Of course, it is too early and stupid to make such statements, but things can change quickly.
Since net neutrality is still poorly understood, it is impossible to give a definite answer yet. There are many books devoted to this topic, but most of them are mediocre, however. In one book, authored by the creator of the term “net neutrality” Tim Wu, one clever idea sounds. It says that any new way of transmitting information from the radio to the Internet over the years turns into a closed industry, a platform for the game, which is played by several large players, as a result of which there is an incentive to create another way to exchange information.
But, we, ordinary users, can only observe the situations and remember that any changes are for the better.
The majority of ordinary people and simple Internet users are hardly familiar with the concept of net neutrality. This is a relatively new and still little-studied area on the World Wide Web, especially in Russia.
When Mark Zuckerberg created the Facebook social network at the Harvard University dorm, access to it was automatically available on any computer in the world. Now, for a moment, try to imagine that you may simply not have such an opportunity, since an Internet provider with full rights may reduce traffic, or restrict your use altogether.
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What is net neutrality?
To make it easier to understand, network neutrality can be compared to the urban highway. Previously, you could go on it quietly, overtaking and rearranging if necessary. And now imagine that on this highway they opened an additional lane for the chosen ones, or made it a paid one, or even banned traffic on certain roads on the highway. It would seem a banal example, but after a court decision in the US, Internet providers will have the ability to speed up specific network lines and slow down others, or take a separate fee for access to some resources.
What is it like in Russia?
As we have said, on the American Internet changes will be significant. If you give the most pessimistic assumptions, then such giants as Skype, Google or WhatsApp will simply become paid resources. As for Russia, things are much better. The changes will be minimal, since US law has nothing to do with Russian. Everything will remain the same, but what about the new startups? After all, many are eager to create a new Facebook or Instagram, but now if it becomes necessary to pay taxes to Internet service providers, it will be much more difficult to implement. Internet providers will essentially become the main players in the global network and will themselves create its culture. According to experts, with the abolition of network neutrality, the Internet will lose innovation and will slowly die. Of course, it is too early and stupid to make such statements, but things can change quickly.
Further situation
Since net neutrality is still poorly understood, it is impossible to give a definite answer yet. There are many books devoted to this topic, but most of them are mediocre, however. In one book, authored by the creator of the term “net neutrality” Tim Wu, one clever idea sounds. It says that any new way of transmitting information from the radio to the Internet over the years turns into a closed industry, a platform for the game, which is played by several large players, as a result of which there is an incentive to create another way to exchange information.
But, we, ordinary users, can only observe the situations and remember that any changes are for the better.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/246385/
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