Net Neutrality, the Digital Divide on PBS (public televison in the USA)

This is a website connected to a programme on PBS called Bill Moyers on America. This programme focuses on
The New Digital Divide
Net Neutrality
Community Connections
Big, Bigger, Biggest Media

It also has links to very useful information, articles, updates and discussion.

We will be discussing many of these topics in class.

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From the Washington Post:
"Net neutrality is a principle that bars Internet providers, primarily phone and cable companies, from charging higher rates to Web-based firms in return for giving their content priority treatment on the pathways to consumers. Without such restrictions, proponents say, a user might find it time-consuming, or even impossible, to call up a favorite site that carriers have relegated to slower lanes for economic or even philosophical reasons."

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