What is net neutrality? Net neutrality is the principle that people should be able to access to the internet without restrictions. The company in which you get your internet through, also known as ISP, is not able to discriminate against you for the websites and services you access. Having net neutrality also allows every website to work at the same, average speed provided by your ISP. People have been able to use net neutrality for a long time and depend on it every time they go online. There are many different online services that we use. The most commonly heard services we as people hear throughout social media are Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and many more.
Without net neutrality rules, internet service providers …show more content…
Due to having restrictions, it makes the job of creating, revising, and updating a website or app harder to complete. It would limit competition. For example, businesses can pay to restrict access to certain items of their competitor. If a smaller business could provide the same work for a cheaper price, the bigger business would pay to restrict that smaller business and their productions. Amid all of this, online business would go downhill unless they were paying for competition. Without net neutrality, your ISP could monitor any data uploads, downloads, or web searches to determine if they felt that the content was …show more content…
The Open Internet Order of 2015 was passed, and it reclassified broadband internet service under Title II, and it allowed the FCC to enforce their rules. After it was passed, Commissioner Ajit Pai was appointed Chairman of the FCC in 2017. The upbringing of Ajit Pai wasn’t very welcoming to those who are for net neutrality.
Chairman Pai firmly believed the rules under Title II were strictly based on politics. He argued that the rules hurt investment. He came up with a proposal that would go against any net neutrality rules and get rid of net neutrality all together. Mr. Pai believes that the internet allows entrepreneurship to blossom by competing with other businesses. In his fight to free ISPs from Title II he hoped to revert Title I, making it turn back to the things were before the FCC created those rules back in 2015.
The Internet Association group supports the top 40 internet companies and said that changing the rules wouldn’t do anything. The rules were working and there was no need to reclassify Title I or II. However, on December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission voted to adopt Chairman Pai’s proposal- “Restoring Internet Freedom”. His plans for his proposal were to ensure that broadband providers could block or throttle, allowing broadband providers to charge tolls to access their customers, and much
Without net neutrality rules, internet service providers …show more content…
Due to having restrictions, it makes the job of creating, revising, and updating a website or app harder to complete. It would limit competition. For example, businesses can pay to restrict access to certain items of their competitor. If a smaller business could provide the same work for a cheaper price, the bigger business would pay to restrict that smaller business and their productions. Amid all of this, online business would go downhill unless they were paying for competition. Without net neutrality, your ISP could monitor any data uploads, downloads, or web searches to determine if they felt that the content was …show more content…
The Open Internet Order of 2015 was passed, and it reclassified broadband internet service under Title II, and it allowed the FCC to enforce their rules. After it was passed, Commissioner Ajit Pai was appointed Chairman of the FCC in 2017. The upbringing of Ajit Pai wasn’t very welcoming to those who are for net neutrality.
Chairman Pai firmly believed the rules under Title II were strictly based on politics. He argued that the rules hurt investment. He came up with a proposal that would go against any net neutrality rules and get rid of net neutrality all together. Mr. Pai believes that the internet allows entrepreneurship to blossom by competing with other businesses. In his fight to free ISPs from Title II he hoped to revert Title I, making it turn back to the things were before the FCC created those rules back in 2015.
The Internet Association group supports the top 40 internet companies and said that changing the rules wouldn’t do anything. The rules were working and there was no need to reclassify Title I or II. However, on December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission voted to adopt Chairman Pai’s proposal- “Restoring Internet Freedom”. His plans for his proposal were to ensure that broadband providers could block or throttle, allowing broadband providers to charge tolls to access their customers, and much