Two Reasons Why Net Neutrality Should Be Destroyed

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Raheeb Chowdhury
12/19/17
Mr. Ajit Pai
I strongly disagree with your opinion that net neutrality should be destroyed. Here are a few reasons why I disagree with you. For one thing, Net Neutrality provides equality for all on the internet by making internet speeds equal, this makes it so ISPs (Internet Service Providers) can’t fiddle with the speeds to make a certain program slower so they will use the program for the same purpose that is provided by their ISP. Another reason why Net Neutrality shouldn’t be destroyed is that the internet is the worlds free speech platform. If you make Americans speeds slower or allow people to not be able to use certain programs without an internet package, you are taking away many peoples right to free speech.

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