In recent days there has been a lot of speculations concerning a vote on net neutrality. Although many are not of aware of the situation, we do have a few who knows and understands what is going on. First of all what is net neutrality? How does is affect society as a whole? How are consumers affected?
To clear the air, net neutrality is basically a principle in which internet providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites. Today, December 14, 2017 marks the date when a vote was taken for federal regulators to allow internet providers to speed up services for websites they favor and block down or slow down others, states Jhaan Elker. In the event that a consumer owns a certain network then they can choose to slow down another network. For example, Verizon who owns Yahoo, can decide to slow down other popular websites such as Google, Bing and etc. just because they …show more content…
In the nature of doing a research paper which requires you have online sources you would have to pay a fee just to see the content on that website. These fees vary from the price range of 1$-15$ just to get on a website. What if you pay to visit the website and get information and end up getting invalid information that does not support your assignment? You will be basically paying for no reason. Not only that, but also keep in mind that there are lower class families and lower income families. Most households in these situations only have one parent that is able to work or even just one parent living with them. How will they be able to afford paying to visit a website for information? It denies children in these particular situations/conditions to not be allowed get the proper information they need for their homework
To clear the air, net neutrality is basically a principle in which internet providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites. Today, December 14, 2017 marks the date when a vote was taken for federal regulators to allow internet providers to speed up services for websites they favor and block down or slow down others, states Jhaan Elker. In the event that a consumer owns a certain network then they can choose to slow down another network. For example, Verizon who owns Yahoo, can decide to slow down other popular websites such as Google, Bing and etc. just because they …show more content…
In the nature of doing a research paper which requires you have online sources you would have to pay a fee just to see the content on that website. These fees vary from the price range of 1$-15$ just to get on a website. What if you pay to visit the website and get information and end up getting invalid information that does not support your assignment? You will be basically paying for no reason. Not only that, but also keep in mind that there are lower class families and lower income families. Most households in these situations only have one parent that is able to work or even just one parent living with them. How will they be able to afford paying to visit a website for information? It denies children in these particular situations/conditions to not be allowed get the proper information they need for their homework