AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'Network neutrality' is sometimes called 'Internet freedom' or 'Internet openness' and is a legal principle that would forbid cable and phone companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast from blocking some websites or providing special priority to others.
Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.
As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.
In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.
If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.
Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.
The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.
AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.