What is Net Neutrality?
In March 1989 the world changed. That month Sir Tim Berners-Lee created what is known as the World Wide Web (Cian O'Luanaigh). Since that day, the internet has grown and truly become worldwide. People everywhere can even access it directly from their pockets. But because of how fast it came about, there are still flaws in the system. One of these flaws is figuring out whether or not to implement an open net or what is also known as net neutrality. Net neutrality is very important to how the future will be. Many do not know what it really is. The goal is to inform the common person on what net neutrality means for them and to show how far it has come since the idea of an open internet has been proposed.
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Throttling is where your internet is intentionally slowed down or websites themselves are made slower by your internet service provider. The main reason why companies would want to do this is so when there is high traffic they will reduce your speed to ease the load. According to a third year student at Columbia Law School, Rebecca Curwin, in her, “Unlimited Data, but a Limited Net: How Zero-Rated Partnerships Between Mobile Service Providers and Music-Streaming Apps Violate Net Neutrality,” the FCC makes an exception for traffic management (218). What net neutrality proposes is banning throttling for adverse reasons. To decide whether or not the internet providers are throttling users for the right reason the internet service providers have to be …show more content…
The internet has always been fairly open. However, without net neutrality, internet service providers could theoretically have a service you pay for so that your website is faster than everyone else’s. The best way to understand this is to look at this from a small business owner’s point of view. According to senator Al Franken in his speech, “Net Neutrality: The Free Speech issue of our Time,” he applies Youtube and Google TV to net neutrality (239-240). He goes on to explain that before Google bought Youtube for $1.65 billion, Google had a competing platform called Google TV. Since their websites were presented at equal speeds, consumers could make a choice between the two. In the end, the consumers ultimately thought Youtube was a better choice. He claims that without net neutrality Google TV would have been picked by the consumers because Google is a large enough company to pay for prioritization. The people who started Youtube were just two men that owned a pizzeria. They wouldn’t have been able to pay for prioritization, thus not making it a fair competition, according to Al
In March 1989 the world changed. That month Sir Tim Berners-Lee created what is known as the World Wide Web (Cian O'Luanaigh). Since that day, the internet has grown and truly become worldwide. People everywhere can even access it directly from their pockets. But because of how fast it came about, there are still flaws in the system. One of these flaws is figuring out whether or not to implement an open net or what is also known as net neutrality. Net neutrality is very important to how the future will be. Many do not know what it really is. The goal is to inform the common person on what net neutrality means for them and to show how far it has come since the idea of an open internet has been proposed.
There are multiple …show more content…
Throttling is where your internet is intentionally slowed down or websites themselves are made slower by your internet service provider. The main reason why companies would want to do this is so when there is high traffic they will reduce your speed to ease the load. According to a third year student at Columbia Law School, Rebecca Curwin, in her, “Unlimited Data, but a Limited Net: How Zero-Rated Partnerships Between Mobile Service Providers and Music-Streaming Apps Violate Net Neutrality,” the FCC makes an exception for traffic management (218). What net neutrality proposes is banning throttling for adverse reasons. To decide whether or not the internet providers are throttling users for the right reason the internet service providers have to be …show more content…
The internet has always been fairly open. However, without net neutrality, internet service providers could theoretically have a service you pay for so that your website is faster than everyone else’s. The best way to understand this is to look at this from a small business owner’s point of view. According to senator Al Franken in his speech, “Net Neutrality: The Free Speech issue of our Time,” he applies Youtube and Google TV to net neutrality (239-240). He goes on to explain that before Google bought Youtube for $1.65 billion, Google had a competing platform called Google TV. Since their websites were presented at equal speeds, consumers could make a choice between the two. In the end, the consumers ultimately thought Youtube was a better choice. He claims that without net neutrality Google TV would have been picked by the consumers because Google is a large enough company to pay for prioritization. The people who started Youtube were just two men that owned a pizzeria. They wouldn’t have been able to pay for prioritization, thus not making it a fair competition, according to Al