Annotation for Source 6

Source:
Vogele, Colette. "Net Neutrality." Rules for the Revolution: the Podcast.
WordPress, 02 Oct 2007. Web. 25 Oct 2010.
http://www.rulesfortherevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/audio/R4R_020_071002.mp3.

Unlike previous documents, this source is a podcast produced by a group that advocates for open source features on the internet as well as the maintenance if net neutrality. In this podcast, the speaker, Collette Vogel, explains to her audience the details regarding governmental net neutrality policies as well as the possible consequences of such policies. Vogel also interviews a lobbyist for net neutrality on how Washington currently views net neutrality. This interview also investigates the history of similar neutrality policies on television, radio, and the telephone. This interview also serves to explain the role of net neutrality for both content producers and content viewers. The main question discussed in this interview and this podcast is the degree to which an ISP provider is able to determine the amount of traffic allowed to view each site. In a more applicable sense, what might happen if a content provider must pay a premium for an ISP to maintain a premium level of traffic on their site.
This source can be applied to my inquiry because if content producers must pay a premium on traffic maintentance, then two groups suddenly have disproportionate power in the parlor room of ideas. The ISP providers have disproportionate power because they are able to influence content viewers to see only the sites that have paid to support the largest amount of traffic. In this situation, the other group that has disproportionate power are those who can afford to pay that premium, such as large corporations, because they force people into viewing only their content while the content produced by lesser budgeted groups falls by the wayside.