Intellectual Freedom: Net Neutrality

What is Net Neutrality?

Net neutrality is the principle that individuals should be free to access all content and applications equally, regardless of the source, without Internet Service Providers discriminating against specific online services or websites. In other words, it is the principle that the company that connects you to the internet does not get to control what you do on the internet. (Quote from publicknowledge.org)

Read more at https://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/net-neutrality

ALA Resources on Net Neutrality

• Summary of Positions: this document affirms the ALA’s support of net neutrality to preserve the free exchange of information on the internet. It includes links to FAQs, the legislative history surrounding net neutrality, and official filings, as well as several news reports.
• Net Neutrality: An Intellectual Freedom Issue: this document explains ALA’s commitment to Net Neutrality in the context of the Library Bill of Rights. It also explains that Net Neutrality protects the free exchange of information and ideas, a key intellectual freedom principle.
• Resolution Affirming Network Neutrality: Passed 28 June 2006
• Resolution Reaffirming Support for National Open Internet Policies and Network Neutrality: Passed July 1, 2014

News & Updates about Net Neutrality

• ALA District Dispatch:Net Neutrality  (News from ALA on net neutrality issues) 
• Net Neutrality Rules are now Repealed: What It Means  6/11/18 article by Seth Fiegerman on CNN Business
• State of Net Neutrality : A coast-to-coast roundup of efforts to restore the open internet -- 1/2/19 article by Greg Landgraf in American Libraries)
• New York Times/Net Neutrality
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)