If you support net neutrality – the principle that all data packets routed around the internet should receive equal priority – soon you could help the cause personally by donating your spare computing power.
Imitating the popular SETI@home project, which harnesses 150,000 home computers worldwide to help search for signs of alien life, a group of politically minded bloggers and techies is planning to enlist a similar army of PCs to monitor the net for non-neutral data routing. Each PC would use its idle power to test whether broadband providers are deliberately slowing data down.
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