Net Neutrality Of Fixing The Internet

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make only twelve dollars. Your interests, your personality, your relationships, your privacy, these things are priceless, but we have given all of them away just to avoid paying twelve dollars.
By now, with all of this negativity, you might think that advertisers have way too much power, the internet is ruined, and there is no way for us to stop it. However, this is far from being true. You don’t have to stand alone on fixing the internet. We can all do it together by using the power of the internet itself. In 2015 the cable companies were trying to do away with “Net Neutrality.” Net neutrality is the principle that all data on the internet is treated equally. Cable companies instead wanted a system where rich sites could pay for faster services

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