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Friday, June 02, 2006
Net neutrality and higher education - Bangor Daily News
On May 13 the University of Maine held a commencement ceremony where business, social work, special education and psychology students from coastal Belfast earned their degrees. In Belfast, University of Maine courses and programs are considered part of the Belfast community because of the Hutchinson Center, a state of the art facility in terms of distance education and on-site, off-campus programming 65 miles from Orono. These graduating students didn't take valuable time off work each week to commute to the Orono campus. They used the Internet to receive many of their courses, combined with on-site, weekend courses more convenient to their work schedules and midcoast location.While this opportunity literally didn't exist for their parents or grandparents or, in all likelihood, even their older siblings, University of Maine courses offered at the Hutchinson Center, across the state of Maine and beyond its borders through the use of the Internet and videoconferencing have become increasingly popular.... But all of this innovation and progress is now in danger of being halted in its tracks - threatened by network operators like Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T who plan to use their virtual monopoly market power to completely alter the structure of the Internet.
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The concept of net neutrality is critical to the success of the internet. The current bills proposed have some very big hurdles to get over, check out the CNet article http://news.com.com/eBay+tries+e-mail+in+Net+neutrality+fight/2100-1028_3-6079291.html
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