Presidents statement bolsters case for considering internet access as a right that should be safeguarded by government
Perhaps unusually for a networked world, Barack Obamas statement supporting net neutrality will have little immediate effect outside the United States.
The debate concerns the way the internet is delivered to homes and offices: proponents of net neutrality argue that the fee internet users pay to get online should cover access to any site, no matter how popular it is; opposing them are the major US internet service providers such as Verizon and Comcast, who want the ability to charge sites that hog bandwidth extra, above and beyond the fees their visitors pay for access in the first place.
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