NOTEBOOK #3

ENGL-2010
Jordan Newbould
Szetela
 NOTEBOOK PROMPT

• 5f. Collect several images that interest you, related in some way to your issue
(the relevance can be tangential, as long as you feel it). Then write something
that connects the images, one to another. You can think of your connections as a
story (one thing connected to the next), or as a web (everything cross-
connected), or as a square, with two sets of opposites, or as a circle (ideas
leading back to the place you started).
NET NEUTRALITY

• The (FCC) Federal Communications Commission

is preparing a ruling to roll back net neutrality
rules enacted under President Obama in order to
motivate investment and innovation. Obama
demanded that the FCC reclassify the Internet as
a “public utility” under the Telecommunications
Act. Obama wanted the rules to ensure “That
neither the cable company nor phone company
would act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you
can do or see online.”
• Still the question looms if we should prioritize an
open internet? Would loosening these rules lead
to customer to get stuck in a “slow lane” of certain
content? Should ISPs be regulated like a utility?
 PRIVACY

• Privacy and security issues can affect user

confidence. Privacy and security fall into 2
categories, positive or negative outcomes.
which affects users attitude towards certain
companies and products.
• Users often don’t differentiate between
security and privacy issues.
• Social systems affect information sharing.
Users have a collective sense of what
information they’re willing to share, and which
people and connections they will share
information with.
INFORMATION SECURITY

• The 2 worlds of information access and

information security are joined, which means
data must be readily available and accessible
to all who need it. As the internet becomes
more innovated, as users we must ensure the
protection of our information and information
systems from unauthorized access, disruption
modification and destruction in order to
provide integrity and availability of
information.
 CYBER SECURITY

• Large telecommunication giants like Comcast, Verizon, and Time

Warner have vested interest in defeating Net Neutrality. Under the FCCs
new rules carries/users would be bound by basic rules of conduct. For
example the FCC would impose penalties in companies found to be
“throttling” their customers we traffic, or companies that block
“legitimate traffic.

• Major carries like AT&T and Verizon record their customers’ personal
data on a regular basis.

• Certain cybersecurity laws preserves the government’s ability to collect

Americans’ personal information in bulk. The NSA could use this as a
“backdoor” into modern encryption standards.
 CONCLUSION

• Internet-related legislation ranks among the most important issues of our time. Show your
support for free and open internet, by writing your local representative. Net Neutrality
would have similar benefits to what Common Carrier rules did for home phone
subscribers.
• Currently, major ISPs like AT&T are actively suing the FCC over Net Neutrality, for worry
of their monopolies.
• If you want the internet to remain open, contact your representatives to take a stand on the
issue, also consider researching consumer advocate groups against Net Neutrality like
Save The Internet campaign. “The FCC just voted to end Net Neutrality – ignoring the
outcry from millions of people like you.”