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"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.

It’s a bright Sunday morning; the birds are chirping, the smell of fresh coffee is in the air and you turn on the tv; “Another Leak Of All Verizon Users Personal Information Out On The Web” is today's headline on the news. In our society right now; the government has the utmost power; yet they might not be using their powers in ways you’d expect. If you're a daily electronic users at Urbandale High School who spends at least 30 hours a week using online functions for entertainment or work; then you might not have heard or seen what the government's been doing recently. In an in depth analysis shows that our life we’re living right now could be seen as a dystopian universe over 50 years ago. Yet as our nation advances, its being advanced in

Our group’s topic is net neutrality. The reason for choosing net neutrality as the focus of our project is because it is a current topic in our country that is being debated about, thus making it controversial. Because the recent repeal on net neutrality affects the majority of the people living in the United States, the action cannot simply be ignored. Our group had many intentions in choosing our topic. First off, we want to explain what net neutrality is in order to get rid of any misconceptions about it. Then, we want to illustrate the effect of repealing net neutrality would have in our country. Most importantly, we feel the need to express our opinion on net neutrality and let the audience know that the repeal on net neutrality was a

Net-neutrality became a big topic of debate in the United States last year. Net-neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISP’s) should be giving access to all web traffic equally, without blocking access or favouring certain websites. In the first quarter of 2014, the FCC began to propose rules that would allow ISP’s to have control over their consumers access, basically going against net-neutrality. After being ruled out, ISP’s pleaded for the court to reappeal the case, which ended up ruling in favour of the rules by the FCC. This issue is interesting to look at for the ways in which the media reports it, because the majority of people are for equally accessed web traffic, but the media needs

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.

Average citizens won't have the luxury to search up what they want since the big telecommunication companies will oversee everything and control everything. In the article, What Is Net neutrality, it is stated that the freedom of the open internet is the biggest freedom we as Americans have today. By taking away our freedom, the companies may as well be taking our freedom of speech. Net neutrality is a

In the editorial, “Verizon’s AOL deal: ISPs go searching for content,” the times editorial board argue it necessary for the FCC to remain neutrality to other ISPs. To show how the FCC did give preferential, some ISPs merge in with other mobile phone network, have Internet traffic, and lack of great services. Verizon, the mobile phone network, decides to buy the dial-up Internet service AOL, just for its expertise in the advertising field. AOL used to provide their subscribers with great website services, but overtime other ISPs start to provide better quality services. People, who develop the sites, argue that their ISPs provide bad services because the FCC favors their own sites and other ISPs that give them money. However, last February,

Unfortunately, the repealment of net neutrality impacts us, as the consumers, the most. Without net neutrality, all ISPs no longer have to adhere to the laws set in place, and the ISPs can manipulate the internet to their own benefit. For instance, your ISP would have free reign to to slow your access to the internet(2). Especially for broadband intensive websites, such as streaming sites like Netflix, the ISPs would slow them down immensely in order to minimize the cost of the ISPs accessing that data (3). Access to the site would be unbelievably slow, unless we pay a ransom to access a “fast lane”(2). As a result, consumers are left with two options, pay a fee for the same internet they once had, or comply with unnecessary wait times. Without

Prior to this case study, I had only heard of network neutrality on social media. I wasn’t sure what it meant or what it entailed, until beginning my research for this assignment. While researching this topic, I immediately stumbled across a Burger King commercial that was written about by the LA Times and released this month. The LA Times (2018) stated that the Burger King commercial was used to inform customers about network neutrality based on differing prices for a Whopper. The franchise advocated that it would charge various prices to customers based on the speed of processing the hamburgers.

A company that started with two men in a garage who could barely find the funds to eat, grew to become one of the most valuable companies in the world that provides jobs for 14,000 people—this happened in less than 15 years—this happened because of the unregulated Internet—this company, is Amazon. Net neutrality is vital to the world economy as it provides motive and opportunity for small businesses by preventing monopolies, encouraging innovation, mitigating piracy, and creating jobs for millions of people.

Restoring Net Neutrality is an issue because the world wide net should be open to everyone for their free speech. It is also important to small businesses who would have to pay what is basically a ransom for a free internet and fair amount of advertising. Many people express themselves or issues online each day, and when ISP’s with opposing views blocks these people, it should be considered a violation of free speech. This is important to me because my school is 1:1 and I have to research topics for projects throughout the year. Slowing down internet or blocking elements can stop me from viewing important information related to my projects. I also use it to interact with my friends online. I suggest that you do something to help Net Neutrality.

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.

Since the early 90s, pictures and mp3 websites arrived, causing internet traffic to increase. Sharing videos and video steaming was more common since 2003. Free video content sites, such as YouTube are using a good amount of bandwidth, which causes ISP’s demand to charge them to make their content available on the provider’s network. This is called Net Neutrality.Net Neutrality can be both positive and negative. For companies net neutrality has had a positive effect, while for others it’s harmful. Consumer advocates, organization and internet applications companies, such as Amazon, Yahoo, and eBay etc. support net neutrality. They support net neutrality because when an advertisement pop up they would get money for every time someone look at

If there is no net neutrality, ISPs will have the power to mold internet traffic according to their preferences so that they can derive extra benefit from it. For example, several Internet service providers believe that they should be allowed to charge extra from companies like YouTube and Netflix because these services consume more bandwidth in comparison to a normal website. Basically, these ISPs want a share in the earning that YouTube or Netflix make

In this field, competition refers to network owners (ISP). Their differential in pricing and control of information alters the competition. Anti-competitive acts by network owners would be barred due to the impact of net neutrality (St. Petersburg). The major companies (telecom and cable) could enforce a fee for faster Internet or prefer content that is associated with their partnered conglomerates. The cause would be a halt in innovation and end up giving larger companies the power to nudge aside the smaller start-ups from expanding (Linux Journal). Also, net neutrality saves the internet as an ideal marketplace. For the previous 10 years, the Internet has been a public marketplace where privatized companies are able to expand and grow, and this reputation will continue to serve (Opposing Views). More importantly, without net neutrality in affect, price discrimination risks start-ups from emerging out of their cocoons. Net neutrality once paved the concept of free market endeavors. Without these regulations, innovators are at the hands of network owners and building new online entrepreneurships or