If you are reading this sentence right now you are using a service with no limits or boundaries. You pay a company such as Comcast or AT&T to give you access to the internet. When you open your web browser, you expect to be able to access any website at any time. You're even allowed to create your own content at no extra charge. You are exercising Net Neutrality.

Net neutrality is a term described by www.savetheinternet.com as:

Network Neutrality -- or "Net Neutrality" for short -- is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet.

Put simply, Net Neutrality means no discrimination. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from speeding up or slowing down Web content based on its source, ownership or destination.

Net Neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online. It protects the consumer's right to use any equipment, content, application or service on a non-discriminatory basis without interference from the network provider. With Net Neutrality, the network's only job is to move data -- not choose which data to privilege with higher quality service.

Without the internet the world would feel empty. I can wait until 6am every day to read a newspaper that will be out of date by the afternoon, or I can log onto my favorite news website and be updated every second.

Just imagine this: your check your news everyday at CNN.com. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is Comcast. Comcast decides to sell "Internet Space" to Fox News and Comcast blocks you from accessing CNN.com because it's a competitor to Fox News.

Or your ISP starts to charge you, per use, to access Google. Or YouTube. These ideas are not far fetched.

We may be living in a short-lived free internet age. Read more at www.savetheinternet.com.

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