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The Pros And Cons Of Net Neutrality

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that they cannot do it if it’s only because they don’t agree with what their content is about? No one. Net neutrality sets up a wall that prevents companies from becoming corrupt, and every company, start-up or conglomerate, has the same abilities on the Internet. By removing net neutrality, entrepreneurs and start-up businesses will also become inferior to the tech giants such as Netflix. This is part of the reason that Netflix has stepped away from the net neutrality front lines. They are so large that whatever is decided will not hurt them or help them. The CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, said that, “…[we are] big enough to get the deals we want,” (as cited in Brodkin, 2017c). However, he also said that net neutrality is still important for …show more content…

The reason that the big content providers won’t be effected is because all the ISPs will make deals with them. Any new company will be automatically in the slow lane and that, in turn, will hinder their growth. They will not have the same opportunities as the content giants of today had when they started up. On the other hand, when some of these companies started, the Internet was just launching off the ground and net neutrality wasn’t really a thing, because no one needed it to be (Greenstein et al, 2016). There were no big ISPs and the Internet was only used by a few people. It wasn’t until the past couple decades that the Internet became a massive interconnection of billions of people. Because so many people use the Internet, there is a vast amount of currency that can be seized by many people. Regulation had to be put in place because without it, people would take advantage of the opportunity

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Top Telecom Companies and ISP’s addressed the FCC in Federal Court saying, “It will cause irreparable damage, immense burdens, causing serious and substantial harm to service providers and consumers” (Nuechterlein and Weiser 182). This idea allows the rhetoric a chance to settle and fester in the minds of consumers. Phase two, make the public think that the Federal government's meddling will hurt their bank accounts. This idea is presented to the consumer by telling them that anything the Federal Government wants to get involved in is for the purpose of taxation. Consequently, Internet Service Providers have begun releasing statements that the government’s plans are to tax them in every way imaginable for us if the internet (charging per stream, per email, per download).

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As some of us might know there has been a passionate debate on the issue of the net neutrality in which there is strong feelings on both sides of the debate. Net neutrality is the idea government should regulate the internet so that the major telecommunications companies won’t be able to turn the internet landscape into a monopoly. This paper will examine both sides of the net neutrality debate in which the content of this paper will explore both the pro and cons of net neutrality. At the end of the paper I will reveal my true thoughts about net neutrality and will discuss what I have learned about this issue in the process. Some of the pros of net neutrality include easy access to information, promotion of free speech and promoting innovation for smaller internet companies.

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Ending net neutrality would give the internet companies the ability to do whatever they wanted with their companies and their costumers, also it would take away our free internet. Therefore, ending net neutrality could change the internet we love. With ending net neutrality, it would allow internet companies like Verizon and T-Mobile to do whatever they please like charge more for certain apps and websites. Already this year AT&T called net neutrality “an unpredicted regulatory overreach for which there is no economic or marketplace justification” (Lohr). With this comment, why should we trust these companies with all the freedom they would gain.

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For example, let's say that a large search engine corporation had a lot of spare money in the bank from advertising, and it decided to pay ISP's to give their traffic preferential treatment over a different website, such as a non profit like Wikipedia. That situation would not be fair in my mind, because a corporation uses its power to disproportionately gain an advantage in performance that is not justifiable. A core principle of the internet is being allowed to exercise one's freedom of speech. There should be no reason that someone who is acting within their constitutional right should be denied the opportunity to share their viewpoint in any way that they choose (2).

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Net neutrality is essentially " the principle that consumers should have equal access to content available on the Internet." ` While Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Tom Wheeler denied that the internet priniciples of net neutrality were not being gutted, the fact that the 2010 "Open Internet" rule was struck down by courts has many net neutrality advocates worried. The Open Internet rules required Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to be transparent in how they deal with traffic, prohibiting them from blocking high-traffic sites like Netflix and, the most controversial, prohibiting ISPs from putting customers in a "slow lane" to benefit themselves. 1 That said, Wheeler has proposed new rules that " allow broadband providers to strike special deals with Internet companies like Netflix or Skype for preferential treatment".

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