Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, wrote, "The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention."

《浅薄：互联网如何毒化了我们的大脑》一书的作者尼古拉斯·卡尔写道：“网络被设计成一个中断系统，一台用来分散注意力的机器。”

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The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation, familiar with personal computers and the Internet, and the older generation, accustomed to an industrial society.

然而，最大的差距是熟悉个人电脑和互联网的网络一代和习惯于工业社会的老一辈之间的差距。

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It's a website, but in a sense, it's another version of the Internet itself: a net within the net, one that's everything the larger net is not.

它是一个网站，但从某种意义上来说，它又像是另一个“互联网”——“网”内还有“网”，一个是包含一切但更大的“网”却不是。

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And a big wireless carrier, AT&T,calls extending the net neutrality policy "a risky experiment" with American investment in high-speed Internet.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

Net neutrality is the idea that everything on the Internet should be treated equally.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

The agency could seek new powers to regulate Internet service and enforce net neutrality.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

The company noted that consumer wireline revenue was up 4.1%, with 144, 000 FiOS Internet net adds to 5.4 million, and 134, 000 FiOS video net adds, to 4.7 million.

FORBES: Connect

In sum, the politics of regulating the Internet and net neutrality are based on misrepresentation and upside down language and justifications.

FORBES: The Politics of Regulating the Internet

Verizon added 144, 000 net new FiOS Internet connections and 134, 000 net new FiOS Video connections in fourth-quarter 2012.

ENGADGET: Verizon adds 'record-high' 2.1 million subscribers in Q4 2012, but still makes a loss