Essay On Net Neutrality

EUREKA Poster and Oral Presentations So first I would like to discuss the poster presentation that I went to which discussed net neutrality. The researcher and presenters were Taylor McCreary, Graciela Ruiz, Rolando Diaz, Natally Chavarria, Joe Hankins and their work was name “The Tragic End of Your Internet Freedom: Net Neutrality”. Their main goal is to save net neutrality by informing people the importance of net neutrality and what actions they can do to help protect the free and open Internet. They first conducted research on the topics concerning net neutrality from trustworthy sources such as government websites. They also conducted research on Midwestern students’ knowledge and opinion over net neutrality. Then they proceeded by first creating posters, signs, and having meetings discussing …show more content…
Their next step was getting students to sign petitions supporting their cause to raise awareness in our University and in the town. They received many signatures which help them get recognition from the mayor. They wrote articles discussing why they're topic was important and how it has an impact on everyone's daily lives and how government’s involvement would lead to an abusement of power by making various sites not accessible for many internet users. They wanted us to realize that our freedom of speech was being attacked because the internet is a platform which gives us access to speak what we think and to learn any knowledge that we want to know and that the new bill over net neutrality is trying to take that from us. They express that the end of net neutrality would lead to limited opportunities for people and allow corruption in a platform that has the power to change what we can learn and what knowledge we can have access to. Overall the presenters of this poster were a group that was very passionate and a had a lot of knowledge on their topic and definitely gave me more insight about the effects of net neutrality in