Network neutrality in Canada.

This article is about the general principle of network neutrality. For its specific application to Canada, see Network neutrality in Canada. For its application to the U.S., see Network neutrality in the United States.
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Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Web neutrality) is a principle proposed for user access networks participating in the Web that advocates no restrictions by Web Service Providers & governments on content, sites, platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, & no restrictions on the modes of communication allowed.[1][2][3]
The principle states that if a given user pays for a positive level of Web access, & another user pays for the same level of access, then the one users ought to be able to connect to each other at the subscribed level of access.
Though the term did not enter popular use until several years later, since the early 2000s advocates of net neutrality & associated rules have raised concerns about the ability of broadband providers to make use of their last mile infrastructure to block Web applications & content (e.g., sites, services, protocols), those of competitors. In the US , but elsewhere as well, the chance of regulations designed to mandate the neutrality of the Web has been subject to fierce debate.
Neutrality proponents claim that telecom companies seek to impose a tiered service model in order to control the pipeline & thereby remove competition, generate artificial shortage, & oblige subscribers to buy their otherwise uncompetitive services. Lots of think net neutrality to be primarily important as a preservation of current freedoms.[4] Vinton Cerf, thought about a "father of the Internet" & co-inventor of the Web Protocol, Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web, & lots of others have spoken out in favor of network neutrality.
Opponents of net neutrality characterize its regulations as "a solution in search of a problem", arguing that broadband service providers have no designs to block content or degrade network performance.[5] In spite of this claim, positive Web service providers have intentionally slowed peer-to-peer (P2P) communications.[6] Still other companies have acted in contrast to these assertions of hands-off behavior & have begun to make use of deep packet inspection to discriminate against P2P, FTP & online games, instituting a cell-phone style billing process of overages, free-to-telecom "value added" services, & bundling.[7] Critics of net neutrality also argue that information discrimination of some kinds, to guarantee quality of service, is not problematic, but is actually highly desirable. Bob Kahn has called the term net neutrality a "slogan" & states that they opposes establishing it, however they admits that they is against the fragmentation of the net whenever this becomes excluding to other participants.[8]