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Net neutrality sometimes isn't the easiest thing to wrap your head around. But the artistic folks at Online MBA Programs are here to help with 15 facts you may not have known about what neutrality on the Internet actually means.

This article states more rules on net neutrality as well as some arguments that are occurring with net neutrality. it also states what you can do if you want to report an ISP. You can report it informally or formally: informally, you would fill out a complaint form. It is not recommended that you formally report an ISP unless you represent a large company.

You're not writing enough for your summaries.

The internet in our every day lives is open and free, we can all see the same videos the same links and pages. Net neutrality is meant to keep this freedom open, where as those against net neutrality want to restrict the access we have.

Great article about net neutrality and open standards on the web.

Interesting information on net neutrality. Good stuff. 

This site shows some very good examples of how bad it could be if net neutrality were to not exist. Some good points in the article would be: higher prices on internet and worse customer service to name a few.

Talks about Net Neutrality and its effects

Not sure if this is good or bad. 

Verizon on Thursday filed a legal challenge to new federal regulations that prohibit broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic flowing over their networks.

This would make a great topic for a research project.

Another Net Neutrality website that has a good amount of information on this hot topic

Dignity 2012 cleared the biggest hurdle in the process at the end of 2011, gathering 84,713 signatures, of which 79,626 were qualified and certified. All initiatives in the Commonwealth originate in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for their journey through the State House. The initiative was introduced as H.3884 and assigned to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. Over the next few months, legislators will discuss the initiative and consider one of the following steps: The General Court can pass the initiative as it's written. (This rarely happens.) The Judiciary Committee can make a formal recommendation of Support, Do Not Support, or Neutral. The Legislature can put its own version of the initiative on the ballot. (Again, this is rare.) If the legislature doesn't pass the initiative as it's written, the next step for Dignity 2012 will be another phase of signature gathering in the beginning of May. This next signature gathering phase would be smaller than the one which took place in the fall; the campaign would need to collect 11,485 qualified voter signatures between the beginning of May and July 3rd to be considered for the November ballot. Voters who signed the petition during the first signature gathering phase cannot sign the second petition.

This article mentions what obstacles musicians might face if net neutrality were to not exist. Musicians might have to have their fans wait for a while while the site loads their music slowly because they didn't pay the fees the site requires them. This will cause a lot of new found troubles for musicians in their early careers

This site mentions different rules that internet service providers must adhere to. Some said rules are: transparency, which is stationary and mobile broadband providers must let people know about their management practices and terms of conditions and unreasonable discrimination, which is fixed broadband providers cannot discriminate in transmitting network traffic that are obeying the law.

This site, states what net neutrality is, which is the principle that helps keep the internet free and uncensored. It answers a lot of questions you would have on it and why it's so important.

This article explains how unsettling it can be if a company is given the right to regulate certain sites users view such as letting them, "block or slow specific sites like YouTube to deliver their content faster to users."

This is a neutral article on the SOPA law. It describes what SOPA is, who is opposed and who is for the law, and what the outcome of voting for the law was. It also gives some alternative ideas to secure the internet from piracy overseas, but not invade the privacy of our people.

The Park 51 project in New York City is again under fire, this time for applying for funds from the 9-11 rebuilding fund. Critics and protesters think the project development is a "slap in the face" as people continue to debate its proximity to Ground Zero. Yet, how can the appropriation of public funding be legally withheld from a specific religious or cultural group?

The number of obese children in america is growing every year. Kids are decreasing the amount of exercise they get and increasing food portions. Many studies have been done that prove this leads to heart problems. In a lot of homes in the US today, children are able to sit around and eat as much as they want, and what ever they want. This is a continuing problem because the children will carry this on to their children. Child obesity also leads to mental and emotional problems.