Net neutrality is an issue that was brought up in the news three months ago when the government revoked it. Net neutrality is a very complicated thing and not many people actually know what it means. Net neutrality is where the government forces internet providers to give all websites the same speeds. That allows startup tech companies to use the same speeds as Facebook and Google. According to the ACLU, without net neutrality there will be two tiers of the internet. The companies that can afford to pay for internet will have faster connections and the companies who can not, will be left behind. Wired explains that those companies use the technique called peering where instead of sending their content through the internet to the provider they
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That means that there is less innovation so less new technology, and websites. Those small companies have to pay internet providers money so they can get better speeds meaning those companies put less money into product development. This slows or even stops some companies, wiping out brilliant ideas. These small start-up companies could change the way the internet works making it better, faster, and safer but they cannot because net neutrality is gone. They are still able to use the internet, but their larger competitors have a leg up on them because someone would rather use a faster website than a slow …show more content…
Marvin Ammori, a leading expert on net neutrality who put it into place, in the beginning, said before the announcement of the repeal of net neutrality “We’re about to lose net neutrality and the internet as we know it.” Marvin has been a leading voice working to save net neutrality. He is a prominent first amendment lawyer and thinks that along with those freedoms, should be the freedom of the internet. The internet is very new, and so the constitution needs to catch up to it. Laws like net neutrality were created to govern the internet and keep it free for everyone to use but if you take them away the internet could become a costly, controlled place where it is very hard to
That means that there is less innovation so less new technology, and websites. Those small companies have to pay internet providers money so they can get better speeds meaning those companies put less money into product development. This slows or even stops some companies, wiping out brilliant ideas. These small start-up companies could change the way the internet works making it better, faster, and safer but they cannot because net neutrality is gone. They are still able to use the internet, but their larger competitors have a leg up on them because someone would rather use a faster website than a slow …show more content…
Marvin Ammori, a leading expert on net neutrality who put it into place, in the beginning, said before the announcement of the repeal of net neutrality “We’re about to lose net neutrality and the internet as we know it.” Marvin has been a leading voice working to save net neutrality. He is a prominent first amendment lawyer and thinks that along with those freedoms, should be the freedom of the internet. The internet is very new, and so the constitution needs to catch up to it. Laws like net neutrality were created to govern the internet and keep it free for everyone to use but if you take them away the internet could become a costly, controlled place where it is very hard to