The Pros And Cons Of Internet Neutrality Regulations

Americans view net neutrality as a significant issue with ramifications that could affect our country’s future progress. The core of the net neutrality dilemma is whether to tightly regulate companies providing access to the internet (referred to as Internet Service Providers or ISPs) or, instead, to loosen those regulations. Although there has been a public outcry in favor of keeping the current regulations, a considerable number of recent publications argue that loosening net neutrality regulations will benefit the economy in the long term. To start, Mr. Hong and his team researched the effects of loosening regulation of the internet on social welfare. In his conclusion, he advances the proposition that, when there is competition among ISPs, companies that make content available on the internet (referred to as content providers or CPs might do better under looser regulation than they would under current net neutrality regulations. (Hong) Specifically, he concludes that “when there is competition among ISPs, while they do increase their profits by deviating from net neutrality, they cannot extract the entire surplus from the CP that decides to pay for priority delivery of its content.” (Hong) The existence of competition among internet service providers (ISP) is vital for this conclusion, as competition

Choi’s analysis, CP’s could potentially create an advantage for themselves while also harming ISP’s under a neutral net. Due to ISP’s being required to provide the same quality of internet (speed) to everyone, a company that uses substantially more resources will get the same treatment as a company who hardly uses network resources. ISP’s, on the other hand, want deregulation, so that CP’s who use an extraordinary amount of network bandwidth could be charged more appropriately compared to a smaller company not using as much data. As with Mr. Hong’s article, both social welfare and ISP’s will benefit more in the long term with