Sunday, November 21, 2010

Heading into the survey I thought about asking 100 people there opinion. After the first couple of calls I decided to reduce that number to 50 because of the hostility I received. It wasn't like I was impolite or anything. The questions I asked were very simple and didn't take anymore than a minute of their time. But I guess some people are just hostile.

My survey consisted of only three questions because I wanted to get a barometer of what people knew about Net Neutrality. I didn't ask heart to heart questions, they were just simple yes or no answers.

The questions are as follows.

1. Do you use the internet?

2. Do you pay for your own internet?

3. Do you know or have heard about Net Neutrality?

The results that I compiled from my 50 participants were very, very surprising. The answer to the first question was as expected with 50 YES. Hearing a NO probably would have made me ask why not. But anyways moving on. The answer to the second question was roughly 50-50, with 32 YES and 18 NO. Most of the NO's is understandable because those people didn't pay for rent so I am sure I called some teens or kids. Plus, the NO's said they use the library for their internet access. The most shocking result was the answer to my last question. Overwhelmingly the answer was NO with 46 NO and only 4 YES.

After looking at my results it kind of makes me sad that something so important is not getting to anybody in the public aka common people. This feels like a battle of the major corporations and the FCC and we are just bystanders waiting for the dust to settle.

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