Certainly. The term Internet neutrality means three very important things, and they intertwine with each other. First, it means that anybody can talk to anybody. There’s no discrimination based on who you are. Second, it means that when anybody sends a message, it is carried verbatim — that is to say without alteration — to its intended recipient. It means that no tampering with the message.

Third, if we can make some kind of use of Internet better, that is great, but this must not prevent unimagined new uses of the Internet. If the Internet is currently primarily good for a photo, we may want to make it faster for photo. But if people switch to video or to virtual reality, the current work we do to make photo faster must not prevent the videos or virtual reality from happening. Those three ideas are what we mean by neutrality.

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