Pros And Cons Of Internet Neutrality

The term net neutrality was first coined back in the year of 2003 by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu as an extension the concept of a common carrier. The basic principle definition is that there should be Internet equality for everyone regardless of content, platform, application, attached equipment, or mode of communication. It is essentially a type of civil rights movement for the use of the Internet. It also means that no phone company can limit what you can access on your phone such as text, certain apps, and Internet usage. For example in 2007 denied access for its users from sending donations via text messaging to an pro-choice abortion service citing that they as a company did not believe the campaign. After harsh backlash of the companies censorship from many groups the company quickly backpedaled said it was an isolated incident. However in 2008 they were caught trying to interfere with what type of …show more content…
Which is the process by where a phone can be turned into a mobile hotspot. And in 2012 the phone company AT&T blocked apples facetime app from running on its network unless they paid an additional fee as it increased bandwidth. This is a problem that not enough people know about. This however has made its way to the court as companies such as Yahoo, Google and Netflix are on the side of net neutrality where as the internet service companies such as Time Warner Cable and Verizon are Beltran2 against net neutrality manly because they say that it would lead to increased strain on the bandwidth usage. A company like Netflix can argue a company like Verizon can’t throttle internet streaming speeds on their website. In the summer of 2014 Netflix began paying Verizon and Comcast more money to higher bandwidth in order to improve video quality and