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My name is Dan Barry. I'm a senior in Computer Science at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

I've been programming for over ten years now. Most recently, I've been programming in Ruby and using the Rails framework. I'm also proficient in PHP and JavaScript.

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October 28, 2009 @ 5:41pm

Analogy for Net Neutrality

ISPs are like UPS or Fedex to the web. They deliver packets from sender to receiver.

With net neutrality, they must place equal priority on each delivery and deliver the packets untampered.

Without, they may open, inspect, modify, delay, or even halt packets of their choice.

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Hunter said on November 6, 2009 @ 4:13pm
Which, thus, is completely illegal in any other situation... so why would anyone go for it? More info @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality_in_the_United_States

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