"There needs to be a greater limit on the United States' government control over the internet, as well as state and local forms of government. Net neutrality has been in the spotlight recently because of The Federal Communications Commission voting to destroy the net neutrality principles. Net neutrality protects Americans from slower and more expensive internet bandwidths and from major restrictions posted by the US government. By taking away net neutrality it would be violating Americans First Amendment, suppressing all individuals innovation. Just like phone companies, the internet falls into the same category of a common carrier, where all traffic should be treated neutrally. Although, the FCC seems to threaten this by taking away net neutrality. If they are successful, rural locations in America will receive little to none bandwidth in their small towns. With this heavy and vile limit posed, this would also crush our education, business and communication systems.
To go more in depth, if net neutrality was all together wiped away, we would be losing our freedom of speech, petitioning, art, assembling and etc (Voices of History). The threat
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Net neutrality is a common carrier thus keeping it open and very free, no discrimination is allowed. According to ACLU, ""Common carriage prohibits the owner of a network that holds itself out to all-comers from discriminating against information by halting, slowing, or otherwise tampering with the transfer of any data"" which should most definitely be upheld (American Civil Liberties Union). Information that is halted or slowed down to be tampered with will result in absurdly slow bandwidths across the nation. This will then lead to unhappy customers and less usage of the internet's resources. I declare that net neutrality should stay in order to keep the population content and equal access to the internet across our