The day before Thanksgiving the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission explained that they are going to hold a vote in December to repeal the net neutrality rules put in place during the Obama administration. Net neutrality describes the rules and regulations places on Internet providers to keep the Internet free and open, and keeping them from discriminating any data over any other data. It means that providers need to give all data their “best effort” to keep from stopping any data for any reason other than errors or server malfunctions. The new rules are expected to pass, and if they do, it will end the Internet as we know it. Net neutrality should not be appealed because it gives new companies extreme disadvantages while starting, …show more content…
The price for businesses to perform their functions on the internet would essentially make it more expensive for the consumer, because not only do they have to pay much more for the same internet speed, but the company would most likely be forced to charge for services websites that used to be free such as Facebook and Twitter could very well start to require paid memberships. This, of course, is if people are willing to pay for high-speed Internet. If people don’t pay the big bills, they could not only have much slower internet, but internet providers would have the right to block websites they want to see. It would be like cable TV where people used to have to pay for individual channels. Steve Lohr in his New York Times article explains this:
Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University who is credited with coining the phrase ‘net neutrality,’ said the repeal plan not only rolls back the Obama-era rules, it goes further. It specifically permits broadband carriers to block media content, Mr. Wu said, an added power which was not the case during the administration of George W. Bush. ‘An allowance of blocking is really pretty shocking.’ Mr. Wu said in an