<P> Proponents of net neutrality regulations include consumer advocates, human rights organizations such as Article 19, online companies and some technology companies . Many major Internet application companies are advocates of neutrality . Yahoo!, Vonage, eBay, Amazon, IAC / InterActiveCorp, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, Daily Kos, Greenpeace, along with many other companies and organizations, have also taken a stance in support of net neutrality . Cogent Communications, an international Internet service provider, has made an announcement in favor of certain net neutrality policies . </P> <P> In 2008, Google published a statement speaking out against letting broadband providers abuse their market power to affect access to competing applications or content . They further equated the situation to that of the telephony market, where telephone companies are not allowed to control who their customers call or what those customers are allowed to say . However, Google's support of net neutrality was called into question in 2014 . Several civil rights groups, such as the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Free Press, and Fight for the Future support net neutrality . </P> <P> Individuals who support net neutrality include World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners - Lee, Vinton Cerf, Lawrence Lessig, Robert W. McChesney, Steve Wozniak, Susan P. Crawford, Marvin Ammori, Ben Scott, David Reed, and former U.S. President Barack Obama . On 10 November 2014, Obama recommended that the FCC reclassify broadband Internet service as a telecommunications service in order to preserve net neutrality . On 12 November 2014, AT&T stopped build - out of their fiber network until it has "solid net neutrality rules to follow". On 31 January 2015, AP News reported that the FCC will present the notion of applying ("with some caveats") Title II (common carrier) of the Communications Act of 1934 and section 706 of the Telecommunications act of 1996 to the Internet in a vote expected on 26 February 2015 . </P> <P> Supporters of net neutrality in the United States want to designate cable companies as common carriers, which would require them to allow Internet service providers (ISPs) free access to cable lines, the same model used for dial - up Internet . They want to ensure that cable companies cannot screen, interrupt or filter Internet content without a court order . Common carrier status would give the FCC the power to enforce net neutrality rules . SaveTheInternet.com accuses cable and telecommunications companies of wanting the role of gatekeepers, being able to control which websites load quickly, load slowly, or do not load at all . According to SaveTheInternet.com these companies want to charge content providers who require guaranteed speedy data delivery--to create advantages for their own search engines, Internet phone services, and streaming video services--and slowing access or blocking access to those of competitors . Vinton Cerf, a co-inventor of the Internet Protocol and current vice president of Google, argues that the Internet was designed without any authorities controlling access to new content or new services . He concludes that the principles responsible for making the Internet such a success would be fundamentally undermined were broadband carriers given the ability to affect what people see and do online . Cerf has also written about the importance of looking at problems like Net Neutrality through a combination of the Internet's layered system and the multistakeholder model that governs it . He shows how challenges can arise that can implicate Net Neutrality in certain infrastructure - based cases, such as when ISPs enter into exclusive arrangements with large building owners, leaving the residents unable to exercise any choice in broadband provider . </P>

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