Net Neutrality - Will it Influence Your Vote?

The presidential campaign is definitely a popular topic these days. One debate I haven’t seen regards net neutrality. It’s certainly a topic that I’m considering in the voting process. Google gives their own guide on net neutrality.

Fundamentally, net neutrality is about equal access to the Internet. In our view, the broadband carriers should not be permitted to use their market power to discriminate against competing applications or content.

Here’s the long Wikipedia entry regarding it.

Bretton Jones also provided his input on Search Engine Guide almost two years ago.

What do politicians think? Here you go.

Any thoughts?

Schmap.com and Flickr Photo

I’ve only written about Schmap.com once. It’s a pretty cool local search tool that allows you to send local information to your email, phone, printer, etc. Unrelated, it turns out out that a photo I took of Miller Park w/ my Nikon point-n-shoot has been short-listed for the fourth edition of Schmap’s Chicago guide.

They did include the picture in the email they sent.

The funny thing is it’s certainly not the best picture. I took it on the fly while driving east on I94 towards Milwaukee. I doubt it will make the final cut though… unless they want Milwaukee’s Miller Park to represent Chicago. I’m guessing they found the picture within a Flickr set of last year’s Chicago Inline Marathon.