• Net Neutrality is crucial for small business owners, startups and entrepreneurs, who rely on the open Internet to launch their businesses, create a market, advertise their products and services, and distribute products to customers. We need the open Internet to foster job growth, competition and innovation. Without Net Neutrality, the democratic Internet could fall prey to the companies that deliver Internet services. For them our new found media freedom is a threat that needs to be …show more content…
Net Neutrality leaves control over your Internet experience with you, the user. Yet network operators are considering charging extra money depending on where you want to go and what you want to do online. Some are deploying technology that would sift through and filter the content that you share with others online. Such discrimination endangers the open and level playing field that has made the Internet so democratic.
To support my case further, I would like to state some of the advantages of Net Neutrality.
• No Restrictions: Currently, there are no restrictions on what parts of the Internet that people can access, except for what local governments decide. For example, there are no restrictions or preferences over emailing, file sharing, instant messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP), Video Conferencing, Podcasts, blogs, RSS feeds, USENET, etc.
• No Throttling: Currently, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) cannot change the download or upload transfer rates depending on what people are accessing.
• No Censorship: There are no restrictions on what or how much anyone can upload or download besides connection