Net Neutrality Pros And Cons

These pro Net Neutrality opinions, however, changed as the FCC replaced two members and ultimately voted to repeal Net Neutrality regulations. When the FCC voted to pass the 2015 Open Internet Order, they did so with a 3-2 vote supported by Tom Wheeler, the FCC’s Chairman, Jessica Rosenworcel, and Mignon Clyburn (Selykh). The opposition, Republicans Michael O’Rielly and Ajit Pai, “warned that the FCC was overstepping its authority,” and “solv[ing] a problem that doesn’t exist,” (Selykh). When The FCC later repealed Net Neutrality, Pai had replaced Wheeler as Chairman, and Brendan Carr filled the empty space left behind the wake of Pai’s transition while the other Commissioners stayed (“Leadership”). As a result, the three Republicans, Pai, O’Rielly, and Carr, outnumbered and outvoted the two

If somehow we abolish net neutrality, we would come into a situation that so-called "law of the stronger" would be adopted. Large corporations will have primacy in the market, while smaller corporations will struggle to survive. And if we abolish net neutrality, I personally think that we will find the way to bypass the new rule. For example with illegal downloading, a lot of people have decided on this way, although they know it is a criminal act, because they are not in the financial situation to buy a service through the

In the article, “Net neutrality hits a nerve, eliciting intense reactions”, Cecilia Kang discusses how the pending repeal of Net Neutrality by the FCC and Chairman, Ajit Pai, is adamantly contested by most of the Internet community and most companies, big or small. To develop her argument, Kang uses a wide variety of appeals from established and startup companies, statistics and evidence related to the reaction to the repeal, and demonstrations on how polarizing the issue is, and the repeal’s effect on solving the problem of Internet regulation. Kang cites a multitude of Internet-based companies or organizations, such as Mozilla, Google, Netflix, and Free Press, to demonstrate their concern and clarify their resentment of the repeal. For instance, Google and Netflix argued that “telecom companies should not be able to split sites because that would allow them to become a sort of gatekeeper.” These responses better clarify companies’ concerns about the repeal and its effect on their business, while also aiding Kang in developing her article on explaining the concern and the response it has elicited. According to Kang,

In the above article and video, the concept of the FCC voting to cease net neutrality in the upcoming month is discussed. The Federal Communications Commission is the independent branch of the U.S. government, which helps regulate communications via radio, television, and internet. Currently, the FCC has laws and rules set in place governing the existence of a “net neutrality”. New neutrality, also called the Open Internet” is essentially what allows all United States citizens to view and post whatever they please online, without it being blocked or limited by a third party or network provider. However, on December 14th the FCC will be voting on whether or not to “rollback” net neutrality, with chairman Ajit Pai at the helm of the limited internet

What is Net Neutrality? Well net neutrality is a principle that individuals should have free access to internet. The user can have access to all the content and applications equally, regardless of the source, without the internet service provider (ISP)to discriminate against the specific online service or websites. As the question, has risen, is net neutrality a good thing? In my opinion, the answer is yes in modern time the internet is our freedom of speech that preserve the fact that the government shouldn’t have control or regulate any information over personal data use as it preserves undistorted consumers’ freedom of choice. One essential principles are the end-to-end principle: the links in the network, which its sole purpose of getting

Federal Communications Commission, otherwise known as the FCC, voted two-to-one in May of 2017, to begin the tearing down of the net neutrality law (Rushe), that which protected individuals from companies that purposefully slowed down service lanes so as to regulate what was being broadcasted across computers. Chief internet official Ajit Pai at the FCC stated that he believed that the dismantling of the net neutrality laws could pave the way for a more competitive marketplace, that which would “lift ‘heavy-handed’ internet regulations that overly restricted internet providers” (White). The repealing of net neutrality seems to mainly garner approval from big companies, such as Verizon, and more recently, Comcast, companies that would do well by the repealing of such a law. With net neutrality gone companies such as those listed above would be able to, legally, regulate and control what people saw on the internet by slowing down or speeding up lanes depending on the affiliation the company has with that specific website (Finley). However, even with Title II in effect, some companies have found a way to circumvent those rules in order to ‘play favorites’ as it were. For instance, when AT&T customers access the Direct TV’s streaming service they may find that the data extrapolated from the service used did not count towards their current data limit’s (Finley). It is also believed that with no regulations in place regarding net neutrality, companies have the potential of becoming dictators and blocking

What is net neutrality? Net neutrality is when an internet service provider can block us from being able to use whatever application, web site, and products we may desire to use unless we basically pay for them, therefore limiting our access to whatever we desire.

Net neutrality is a principle that has defended American citizens from internet service providers such as AT&T and Verizon from corrupting individuals internet access. For instance, the principle prevents the speeding up, slowing down or the blockage of any content in applications or websites and charging customers extra fees for high-speed internet. However, that principle is currently being discussed by the F.C.C. whether to repeal Net Neutrality or continue with the principle. The F.C.C. chairman, Ajit Pai proposed the idea and while big internet services such as the ones mentioned agree with the removal of net neutrality since it will give them more leverage over the income they will receive. Yet, others such as Google, Facebook and Amazon

Net neutrality, though sounds like a good concept, as a practice it is more challenging. It has become more political than before. There isn’t a recognized legal or technical description of how it’s done. Therefore governments, service providers and individual rights groups all have dissimilar pitches of what ‘net neutrality’ means to them. The popular debate of net neutrality is the battle to preserve the Internet pretty much how it is now, or how much to let the internet service providers to manage their networks and in what way.

Throughout the last decade, the idea of Net Neutrality has been the topic of many debates. Net Neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers should not be allowed to block their users from any content regardless of its source. The Debate is still continuing in 2017 with the F.C.C planning to repeal Net Neutrality and allow internet providers to completely regulate what their users can see and charge the users extra for “luxuries” such as social media, messaging, email, and music. There are two sides of this argument, one side believes that Net Neutrality should be taken away, while others believe that it is unfair for the Internet providers to have the right to take away the access to any content. Internet providers should not be allowed to control what content one can view when surfing the internet.

Net neutrality in simplest terms means that all internet content should forever be equally accessible without restriction. Meaning that internet service providers shouldn’t be able to restrict speed, which websites you access, or which load faster. So without net neutrality there is a possibility you wouldn’t be able to binge your netflix seasons or spend 3 hours on facebook. Wouldn’t that be tragic?

Net Neutrality is essential to our everyday lives, and it is perilously close to being repealed on December 14th by the FCC; but if more people take a stand in support of Net Neutrality, we can preserve the free internet. Net Neutrality needs to be saved because it protects free speech, free trade of information and services, and the privacy of our data. This is an issue that concerns all citizens regardless of political affiliation, but lawmakers have made it a fight between the two parties. Most people did not care about Net Neutrality or even know what it is until fairly recently, but recent events regarding it's likely repeal have turned the public’s attention towards it.

Back in February 2015, there was a debate over what the new set of rules should be for net neutrality and how they should be established and enforced. The debate ended in favor of continuing the use of the rules set back in 2010. Those rules were proposed by Tim Wheeler who is the chairman for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The Federal Communications Commission or FCC is “an independent group of the United States government which is overseen by Congress that regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories” (FCC). Wheeler’s proposal for the continuation of net neutrality was accepted. In the future, Wheeler said his thought process about the subject had changed and that “the rules didn’t go far enough to preserve true net neutrality” (Reardon). The rules stated that ISPs cannot block users from accessing legal content. ISPs cannot throttle bandwidth or slow down the speed of legal Internet traffic created by their customers. They cannot offer paid prioritization. That means they are prohibited from prioritizing some traffic within their network over other traffic. This rule eliminates the potential for fast lanes. ISPs must follow the Open Internet standard which means users are allowed to go to

This internet openness that is expected to come with the implementation of President Obama’s plan is better known as the FCC’s Open Internet Rule or Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality will allow internet users to go when and where they want with unlimited access to legal content on the internet without broadband providers being allowed to block, prohibit, impair, or establish fast or slow lanes to this material. This is to protect, as stated above, every United States citizen’s right to freedom of speech and expression of personal beliefs and interests. The rules set forth by Net Neutrality are no blocking, an internet provider cannot block access to lawful digital content; no throttling, an internet provider cannot impair service based on content, applications, etc. that the user is trying to access; no paid prioritization, internet providers cannot differentiate or favor internet traffic in exchange for money. (Open Internet 1)

Beginning with its inception in the early 1990s, the Internet has been a source of content and information accessible to all. Net neutrality, or the idea that all data should be treated the same online, has been in place for more than twenty years now. However, this may be all about to change in the United States. On December 14, 2017, Congress is going to vote on whether or not they should repeal the current laws protecting net neutrality and the "open internet". The FCC, or Federal Communications Commision, proposed laws (known as Title II) that kept net neutrality in place and strictly regulated internet service providers (or ISPs). However, the current Chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, a former lawyer for the ISP Verizon, has proposed that these laws be repealed. Net neutrality is integral to the Internet as we know it, and repealing it may be an irreversible decision that will limit our access to data and news at the whims of the ISPs.