New Frontiers: Net Neutrality and The Internet’s Best Kept Secret
The World Wide Web has never been entirely safe, but it’s becoming a scarier place by the day. The recent rollback of net neutrality rights has put the ball firmly in the court of massive corporations and internet service providers (ISPs), who now have the right to turn our preferred digital spaces into capitalist profiteer playgrounds. While ISP throttling is still illegal under the shreds of net neutrality laws remaining, ISP “fast lanes” are not: ISPs now have the right to give services that pay their premium service fast lanes, slowing down other services in comparison. When you leverage this with the corporate scramble to farm data in recent years, with the extent of the data collected (and the lengths to which these businesses are willing to violate our privacy)…
