Net neutrality is one thing that citizens and businesses of many countries are supporting to help keep the internet free for everyone. There are many reasons why I am in support of net neutrality. The first is that I do not think that corporations have the right to throttle content. Another reason is that freedom of speech could be at risk if net neutrality were not enforced (1). Finally, the arguments against net neutrality are weak.
There are two primary kinds of corporations that are a core part of the net neutrality issue. The first is the internet service providers, or ISPs (3). They are the ones to whom consumers connect to in order to access the internet. The other corporations are the internet content providers. These can be companies such as
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For example, let's say that a large search engine corporation had a lot of spare money in the bank from advertising, and it decided to pay ISP's to give their traffic preferential treatment over a different website, such as a non profit like Wikipedia. That situation would not be fair in my mind, because a corporation uses its power to disproportionately gain an advantage in performance that is not justifiable. A core principle of the internet is being allowed to exercise one's freedom of speech. There should be no reason that someone who is acting within their constitutional right should be denied the opportunity to share their viewpoint in any way that they choose (2). If they want to host a web server from their home and deliver their content with complete control over everything, they should be allowed to do that. Without net neutrality, this person's server could be next to impossible for others to reach if only companies controlled the ISP's and therefore the content that flows through the internet. I value freedom and liberty more than most things, and I need the internet to remain neutral in order