Net Neutrality To Improve The Internet

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.

"Most people in America use the internet, and when they use it they should expect to be free to search and post what they want; that is except unless they're intentionally posting or viewing something that is against the law. It's been a theory for some time that the government can view the American peoples' internet searches and browsing history, but are they and should they be doing it at all? Like in the earlier stages of our country, we will and most likely continue to have conflict with our government about certain issues, but the internet and things concerning it seems to be one of the major issues right now.

"The government has no right monitor our internet use and social media accounts. Net neutrality is “The principle that the internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites” . If Net neutrality is repealed ten internet providers will be able to limit our access to things. Net neutrality lets people express their voices online . Sources that we once had for free would have to be paid for like Youtube, instagram and many more.

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 When The FCC later repealed Net Neutrality, Pai had replaced Wheeler as Chairman, and Brendan Carr filled the empty space left behind the wake of Pai’s transition while the other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

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.

Have you ever wondered why we can't curse on TV or on the radio? And if he/she does that, that person gets fined an exorbitant amount of money. But who's giving the fine? Who is saying it is illegal? The answer is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). They “regulate interstate and International Communications by radio, television, water, satellite, and cable in all 50 states.” In other words, they monitor communications through regulations. These FCC regulations has the force of law. Everyone must follow these regulations; citizens and corporations.

Many neutrality proponents contend that failing to develop and enforce net neutrality will lead to the ability of ISPs to block access to content. Currently, there is a freedom of choice in that ISPs are unable to obstruct certain sites or contents over others but that hasn’t always been the case. There have been several cases over the last few years where ISPs have moved to block internet content. Comcast is probably the best known culprit. In the early-to-mid 2000’s, Comcast monitored network traffic patterns and began blocking certain websites (Ammori, 2014). The sites that were targeted were those that are known as peer-to-peer. Peer-to-peer (P2P) sites utilize technology that allow users to share data without having a centralized server. There have been instances where illegal data has been shared but it would be impossible for an ISP to determine that simply from traffic patterns.

I think that net neutrality is essential. There are people who say that getting rid of net neutrality would be good for the public, because it would enable services like Netflix, Google, etc. to pay internet service providers (ISPs) to make their services run faster. However, this could also mean that ISPs are able to charge users more to access certain sites. Some people believe this wouldn’t happen, because if one ISP decides to do that, they would immediately lose almost all of their customers - however, if every ISP did that, then they wouldn’t have to worry about losing customers. Another problem is that if an ISP limits traffic to a certain site, and that site doesn’t have enough revenue to pay the ISP a better connection, then that produces

What is net neutrality and how does it affect us? Net Neutrality is basically freedom of open internet from internet providers. This means they can’t block certain websites or slow down your connection. Now, the current issue is the FCC is trying to remove this right ever since it was adopted ten years ago. Without Net Neutrality, cable and phone companies could charge more for slower speeds than you’re paying for now.

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.

I believe that the government does have a right to monitor internet content under certain conditions. As of now certain government officials are wanting to take internet freedom away which many believe isn't right. I personally believe that if the government believes and has proof that there is a serious crime happening on the internet then it should be taken care of. If not, then it shouldn’t be much of a problem.

Many years ago you wouldn't have ever thought we’d be here deciding whether the internet should be paid for depending on the different sites you went to. But as we know technology has grown bigger and bigger over time. So some people think that we should have to pay. Also speaking there are some people who think differently.

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.

When you click on your internet browser, what website do you go on or look up information? I know I look up my emails, gossip blogs, music, and even cheat codes to games. And who doesn't like to downloading music for free or leveling up on your favorite game? But on a serious note, what if you had restrictions when you click to go on the internet? And what I mean by this is big companies could control what you say, what you do, and even what you see on the internet. Scary, right? It is like someone interrupting your phone call or text message telling you that you can not talk to this person. Luckily we have a thing we call Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality is that big companies or the government cannot enable or interfere internet users to access the wed regardless of what source they choose to use. Thinking about how someone is watching your every move on the

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