Since the beginning of the internet the information and access to it has been free to use.This would be considered Net Neutrality, which is sometimes hard to define exactly what that is.The best definition that I found through my research on this topic is that net neutrality is “the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet” (Net Neutrality, Google). Bellow is a video from youtube.com that talks about net neutrality.
This topic is very important for the way we use the internet in the future.The current debate over this subject is very tricky because it will be very hard to please each side of this debate.The debate that is becoming an important subject everywhere is, should people be able to have a free internet without regulations or should big businesses have the right to own the internet and charge fees for using it and limit people’s accessibility.Ever since the beginning of the internet people have been allowed to use it when ever and how ever they wanted to without worrying about having to pay fees or being limited in what they can search.This whole idea of net neutrality is important because it promotes democracy and freedom of speech.So the major problem in this debate is that the big companies like Time Warner and Verizon want to create a closed internet where everyone has to pay a fee to use it whereas other people think it should be open and allow anyone to use it anytime for free.The reason the big companies want to make the internet closed is so they can make up for the losses in profit that they have been experiencing because of the decrease in the telephone usage.The businesses see that there is a place with the internet to make a big amount of money so that they replace the money that they have lost over the years.One the other side of this debate, those who are for net neutrality and don’t want these big businesses to take control over the internet, have tried to create laws that protects the free use of the internet.So far no law has been set in place to give us the use of the internet for free and prohibiting the big businesses from creating a closed internet, but there has been some very successful debates in congress to move towards creating these laws.(Save The Internet.com)
I believe that the internet should stay the way it is now and that is to still have net neutrality.If we no longer had net neutrality, the way the internet would work would be that each time you wanted to use the internet you would have to pay a fee and then every time you try to use sites that are under another company you would be charged for using there sites.All in all I think this is very unfair.Why should we have to pay for something that in the past has been free.I believe that everyone should have the right to have access to the internet for free and everyone should be able to gain access to any page they want.The internet was formed for people to be able to connect to others and to share information for free.It was not made for big businesses to take over and limit what you have access to and for them to charge you money.I believe that the only reason the big companies want to take over control of the internet is to create money which they already have enough of to begin with.There is no need for them to take over the internet, which has already been established for free use and for people to gain entrance to any page they want.Net neutrality is an important part of our daily lives and I believe that it should stay the way it is now and not be messed with because there is no reason to fix it.
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