We believe that as American’s we are entitled to many freedoms, but is equal access to the internet and all of its contents one of those basic freedoms granted to us? Recently the battle for Net Neutrality has taken a prominent place in the minds of Congress, Big Business, and the General Public alike. Net Neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISP’s) should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites. Recently members of the FCC such as Tom Wheeler with the backing of major internet based software companies such as Netflix, and Google have made a push against ISP’s in an attempt to reclassify the internet as a telecommunication service much like telephone networks. In doing so the internet would be considered a utility giving the FCC power to impose regulations allowing for net neutrality on any device that uses the internet. In allowing Net Neutrality to occur, the FCC is allowing for an equal playing field for small businesses, internet based services as well as allowing for creativity and ideas to spread throughout the digital space. …show more content…
on an equal and level playing field so that ideas can be passed between groups allowing for diverse discussions and learning. There is no way for small businesses and ideas to expand, move, or spark conversations if they are continually barricaded by ISP’s. Companies should not be able to pay for their pages to appear first in searches, this is the perfect example of the rich just getting richer allowing for only those who can afford it to get their ideas out to the general public. The FCC’s reclassification of the internet as it pertains to net neutrality is a necessity as the internet is to us today much like the telephone was to our ancestors over 100 years