Speech 1 – What is net neutrality?

So I needed to create a speech and what net neutrality is and give a 5-10 minute presentation following my outline. Let me know what you think.

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Comments to “Speech 1 – What is net neutrality?”

Reed Gustow Says:
February 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pm

Jesse, very good audio delivery. Lack of “umm” “err” and stumbled-over words and phrases. Serious tone to voice. Unless you were instructed not to give one, I would have liked to hear a specific position on the issue. You did provide the Comcast point of view in a reasonable way; you also pointed out the dangers of losing net neutrality and of allowing commercial entities to control such important knowledge-transfer pathways. Good work.

Magda Kozak Says:
February 13th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

You explained net neutrality well enough that a person with little knowledge of the computer world, like myself, could easily understand what you meant. The pros and cons for both sides allow me to make up my mind which I would sense is the point of a speech in which the topic is “What is” as opposed to “Here is my opinion”
Thanks for expanding my understanding on a topic that will surely be important in the future.

Jesse Middleton Says:
February 13th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

Reed, I realized after the fact that the position I was supposed to take should have been more clear. My position is that net neutrality is here today and should be here to stay but we do have to look at the implications of having to throw more bandwidth at a network each and every day because people can’t police themselves. Is it really necessary to download that new album from Amazon 3 times on 3 computers? Those type of questions never come up.

I appreciate your response to this and all my other things that I throw at the wall.

Jesse Middleton Says:
February 13th, 2008 at 11:28 pm

Magda,
I appreciate the kind words. I hoped to show people WHAT it was, not as much WHY it was. It surely will be an important topic in the near future and should be fought today before it’s too late. Keep an eye out there for those “small” news articles that not only go into what it is but who is fighting it. Sometimes that person who is trying to take away your freedom is sitting right next to you.

Alex Hillman Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 8:30 am

Solid breakdown of some real world cases regarding this very real situation. Like you said, it’s here, we should figure out how to work with it instead of against it. This isn’t the first time something that was previously free became regulated, and realistically, the nature of the internet makes it very difficult to properly regulate, so the ongoing implications should prove interesting.

Well thought out, well paced, and well explained. Thumbs up!

Jesse Middleton Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 9:53 am

Alex, all great points. “It never lasts” is the way to look at it. It’s been a fun ride on the internet so far but it’s changing every day. People want a bigger piece of the pie and sometimes they want to stifle information. We just have to keep in mind that there are a load of ways that we can help protect the internet and the way that information is shared today.

Jesse Middleton Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 5:19 pm

Trying out the Viddler video comment system. Go ahead, give it a go yourself. Talk about me, the information in this post or Viddler themselves.

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