Peter Gregory's Argument In Favor Of Net Neutrality

Net neutrality has been a big topic in recent news headlines. While many people are in favor of net neutrality author Peter Gregory believes it is a form of socialism. In Peter Gregory's review, he displays his ideal future without net neutrality, and what are, in his eyes, the problems with it. Although the biased author was able to give the reader insight to their side of the argument with specific examples as to why they think their views on net neutrality would be non-beneficial, he may have botched his attempt to persuade the opposing side by using too many pathos fallacies and logos based appeals to undermine the counter argument.

It is Gregory's opinion that net neutrality is a form of " techno socialism." It is very apparent that he

By choosing to compare net neutrality laws with socialism he took a slippery slope pathos approach. He used it as a way to scare readers and set the tone of his article before they even began to read. Most people contribute socialism to a dictatorship or Marxist style governments, who have all the power. So while he was trying to make a statement, he ended up attacking people who are in favor of net neutrality. The first paragraph and sentence is also full of logos fallacies. Here is an example, " Net neutrality is a grabbag of cartoonish anticorporate populism…Clearly, the notion that everything on the internet is valuable and worthwhile is a hilarious proposition to anyone who has actually been on the internet." (Gregory). Here Gregory makes a caricature of his opponents dispute, essentially mocking them and trying to intentionally misrepresent their argument. That is quite literally the textbook definition for a strawman logos appeal. Even the quotes Gregory used to back up his claims have fallacies. The quote he chose is a perfect example of the pathos appeal called argument by emotive language. He quoted a man named Ajit Pai, who called the FFC a "regime" which was uncalled for and completely unconnected to net neutrality. While Pai is the one who said it, Peter Gregory used the quote for the same reason Pai said it, to try and change people's minds by

So naturally when looking to see what others have said about this text, it found that they were all mostly in favor of net neutrality. Gregory down talks a recent ruling by the FCC, that after research, seemed to be something he should be praising. This is what the FCC changes actually did,

This decision is a major legal victory not only for the FCC, but for all internet users (including you, since you're reading this online), who will continue to benefit from the Commission's open internet rules. These rules safeguard the principle of net neutrality, by preventing internet service providers from abusing their gatekeeper role to block or interfere with the ability of users to access the content of their choosing. In the simplest of terms: the FCC rules mean no fast and slow lanes on the internet, no blocking of content, and no provider throttling your streaming video just because it can. (Hong)

The only reason he could be against this is if he wanted to make money off of it. It is hard to fathom that someone would be against an internet where you are protected from getting exploited by the