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NET NEUTRALITY

  1. INTRODUCTION
  1. How often do you use the Internet? What do you use it for?
  2. Key words.

Match the words on the left with the definitions on the right, then use the words in 5 sentences.

  1. bandwidth
  1. a piece of writing, image, or other item of content published online.
  1. a post
  1. a person who receives a publication or a service regularly by paying in advance.
  1. an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
  1. The transmission capacity of a computer network or other telecommunication system.
  1. a subscriber
  1. A computer program used to navigate the World Wide Web.
  1. a browser
  1. A company that provides subscribers with access to the Internet.

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  1. Definition of net neutrality:

The concept that all data on the internet should be treated equally by corporations, such as internet service providers, and governments, regardless of content, user, platform, application or device. Network neutrality requires all Internet service providers (ISPs) to provide the same level of data access and speed to all traffic, and that traffic to one service or website cannot be blocked or degraded. ISPs are also not to create special arrangements with services or websites, in which companies providing them are given improved network access or speed.

  1. GROUP WORK

Group A will read text 4, answer the related questions and get ready to report to the class.

Group B will read text 5, answer the related questions and get ready to report to the class.

  1. Advocates for network neutrality suggest that by preventing ISPs from determining the speed at which consumers can access specific websites or services, smaller companies will be more likely to enter the market and create new services. This is because smaller companies may not be able to afford to pay for “fast lane” access, while larger, more established companies can. For example, several well-established social network websites were created without much seed capital. Had they been forced to pay extra in order to be accessed at the same speed as competitors, they may never have become successful. Advocates view net neutrality as a cornerstone of open internet, and propose that it be mandated by law in the U.S. to prevent broadband providers from practicing data discrimination as a competitive tactic. Proponents of net neutrality include human rights organizations, consumer rights advocates and software companies, who believe that open internet is critical for the democratic exchange of ideas and free speech, fair business competition and technological innovation. They argue that cable companies should be classified as "common carriers," like public utility companies or public transportation providers, who are forbidden by law from discriminating among their users. They advocate the principle of a "dumb pipe," maintaining that intelligence should be located only at the ends of a network, and the network ("pipe") itself should remain neutral ("dumb"). Advocates of net neutrality see municipal broadband as a possible solution.

  1. Find English equivalents in the text for the following words:
  • partisans (2 words) : ……………………………………………………..
  • empêcher : ……………………………………………………….
  • avoir des chances de : ………………………………………
  • pouvoir se permettre de : ……………………………………
  • capital de depart : ………………………………………………
  • concurrents : …………………………………………………….
  • un pilier : ………………………………………………………….
  • rendre obligatoire : …………………………………………
  • crucial : …………………………………………………………..
  • juste : ………………………………………………………….
  1. Turn the following sentences into passive:
  • Smaller companies will create new services.

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  • Advocates view net neutrality as a cornerstone of open internet.

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  • They see municipal broadband as a possible solution.

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  1. List the arguments given by the advocates of net neutrality:

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For each argument, give a concrete example of what may happen without net neutrality:

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