Net Neutrality: Should The Internet Be Paid?

Imagine getting online, only to find out that you can 't access your favorite website. It could be Instagram, Tumblr, or even Youtube, a website for uploading videos. After getting off the phone with your internet provider, they tell you that you need to pay to access your favorite website. Internet providers want it to be set up that way. Their has been an ongoing debate about net neutrality between the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) and internet providers. Net neutrality is fighting again internet providers blocking content.

What is net neutrality you may ask? Well net neutrality or open internet is legal content and/or applications that internet service providers give you on an equal basis. They cannot have any favorite websites and block others.In my opinion in favor net neutrality. It makes sure every web site is treated equally. This goes for all video,audio,etc. in my future I want to be a entrepreneur and net neutrality helps people get access to broadband networks without any problems! Big companies like Apple, Microsoft, google (and more) also go for net neutrality. As well as those companies there are some that are against net neutrality. Companies such as AT&T, comcast, cox, and verizon are against net neutrality. They said “The rules are too heavy-handed and could stifle investment and innovation.” Again in my opinion i think net neutrality is a great thing because i think everyone should be treated equally and should have the same chance and votes should have a fair play and have no cheating. Of course pirating is extremely illegal and should be corrected, many web sites are being copyrighted and stealing people's identities and these innosite people are getting banked ruped and losing there jobs for using these websites. Net neutrality is basically the human rights but on computers people need and deserve them.For the people that are against net neutrality, a new FCC chairman, ajit pai,worked as a lawyer for verizon and plans to get rid of net neutrality which would be a big win for

Many people don’t know or care about net neutrality, but the reality is that it’s actually a big deal than you think. net neutrality first became a thing in the 1990s, but became noticeable in the 2003. The reason why net neutrality became something is because there were inequality connection speed between the provider and the consumer. Now in 2018, net neutrality will officially end in April, 23, 2018 if there are not enough votes. The definition of net neutrality is when a consumer can go through any website without facing any restriction from the provider.

In my opinion net neutrality is “Dumb” because it’s the internet providers just want to suck up our money and revoke our internet freedom. I am super against net neutrality because it’s useless it doesn’t even help anything its basically paying overpriced taxes on something we don’t really need or use all the time. Zacks.com says that these web sites may cos 25$ to use: Amazon.inc Netflix.inc Facebook.inc Alphabet.inc and Twitter.inc

A big reason why keeping net neutrality is important is that it allows free access to information. The internet is full of sources that help educate people all across the nation.

To be completely honest, I have never heard Net-Neutrality before this discussion post. After doing some research on this topic, I’ve come to the conclusion that I am against Net-Neutrality.

"Net Neutrality The internet is becoming increasingly more and more prevalent in the everyday lives of U.S. citizens. Citizens who should have access to what they want to see, at speeds that should not be compromised because a company does not favor a certain website. Therefore, the United States government has a large duty to monitor internet content so the public can equally access the internet no matter the topic or issue. Net neutrality needs to be enforced by the government.

First thing I want to point out what is net neutrality. Net neutrality is limiting internet service providers, such as AT&T, Verizon, Century Link, Comcast, MediaCom, etc., from charging their customers where they are using their internet. Right now internet service providers can slow access to certain cites and speed the internet upon other cites, they are basically controlling where people go and what they do on the web. They charge certain companies more for the customer’s use of that cite and then, in turn, those companies charge more to their customers. Basically net neutrality is making the internet a fair place that everyone can use without having to worry about if the internet site they use is going to be slow or if they will be going

I also think that the government needs to maintain net neutrality, because there have been cases throughout the last few years of ISPs and phone providers illegally blocking websites from all their customers - e.g. AT&T blocking Verizon’s website in an attempt to lower competition. This is not good, because the consumer has a right to know about their ISP’s competition if they want to know it, and blocking it prevents them from making an educated decision if they want to switch. If net neutrality is done away with, and there aren’t proper laws in place, ISPs would also be able to charge different amounts to different companies for the same amount of traffic - meaning that if Verizon had to pay AT&T to unblock their site, AT&T might decide to charge Verizon far more than is reasonable. This also means that ISPs could charge more from larger companies, and make more money than they already do, or charge more from small businesses that they don’t like and drive them bankrupt or cut down their profits due to online traffic being blocked, and the business wouldn’t be able to sustain itself from the lack of

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

Network neutrality has been debated for years now. Questions have risen such as “Should internet users communicate online freely?” and “Should internet provide unbiased information to users?” The answer to these questions is yes. I agree with Julius Genachowski in his speech “Preserving a Free and Open Internet: A Platform Innovation, Opportunity, and Prosperity” that net neutrality, or open internet, provides many valuable benefits for the internet community and for our society as a whole.

Net neutrality has been around for quite some time but it was up until now when that us internet users really pay attention to it because our President Donald Trump wants to pass a new net neutrality rule/bill that makes people pay to use apps that were meant to be free like Facebook and Twitter that millions use. “June 2003 Tim Wu coins the phrase network neutrality which was later shortened to net neutrality”. (Tim Wu) According to this quote net neutrality has been around since the summer of 2003 but didn't really take any effect until “February 2004 when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission introduced four principles of network freedom”. (ProQuest Staff) now therefore net neutrality did not affect communities until February of 2004.

Randolph May’s article, “Why Net neutrality is incompatible with ‘Internet freedom’” states uniquely free from government intervention is fundamental to a proper understanding of “Internet freedom”. Also, he says, “those favoring net neutrality claim to fear that, without government

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.

If smaller companies do begin to die out as a result of the repeal of Net Neutrality, our economy would be negatively impacted severely. We would see massive companies running huge portions of our economy. Even before Net Neutrality was put in place and before it was repealed, huge companies were merging together, as since 2008, the U.S. has seen more than, “$10 trillion in mergers.”1 Big companies were either buying out all the small competition or merging with other big companies and controlling high percentages of certain markets. Therefore,if companies are now allowed to pay for their website to be the only website that loads it gives them an unfair advantage and takes away the idea of competition between companies. So, those big companies