Network neutrality

Discussions: Several discussions, debates were going on supporting and opposing net neutrality. There are advantages and disadvantages regarding this. Several regulations are also brought w.r.t protect net neutrality, but bigger corporations are still trying to oppose this free and open access of internet. Advantages and disadvantages are discussed below: Advantages: 1) No Limitations: There are no limitations on internet service usage other than the limitations proposed by the government.…

I. Introduction Bill Chappell documented the FCC’s monumental ruling in favor of net neutrality on February 26, 2015. With this ruling, the FCC reclassified broadband access as a telecommunications service and therefore a common carrier, in turn applying Title 2 of the Communications Act of 1934 to Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Title 2 of the Communications Act of 1934 makes it unlawful for any common carrier to “make any unjust or unreasonable discrimination in charges, practices,…

or houses to watching cat videos on YouTube. You can watch movies, TV shows, or you can meet the love of your life on dating websites. I will explain, everyone takes Internet for granted, thinking that Internet is untouchable. Well it isn’t, Net neutrality is the idea that your cellular or cable Internet provider should treat all websites and services the same. Big companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast want to charge websites for faster reception time. I think that the Internet providers…

A large amount of people, over 50%, were in favor of keeping “Net” neutrality a reality while only a dismal 18% were against it (Graham). Net Neutrality, or the Open Internet Order, is the basis for keeping the internet an open, and free network for all people to use, previously enforced by Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. This large gap in opinions would lead one to think that today net neutrality would still be around, yet in December of 2017, it was repealed. This repeal came after…

Net Neutrality Regulation Pros Network neutrality prevents ISPs from charging services such as Netflix, Skype, PlayStation Plus, and Xbox live for “fast lanes.” The extra expenses for “fast lanes” are a big challenge for internet users since the services become more costly and small companies are prevented from healthy competition with larger corporations that have the required budgetary means to make deals with ISPs. Network neutrality also prevents bias behavior against users by insuring that…

Net Neutrality and Data Discrimination “They who can give up their essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin. When you sacrifice your freedoms for security you deserve neither. The same goes for internet freedoms. When you sacrifice the freedom and openness of the internet for any type of law you deserve nothing. The internet started on the basis of the words, free, open and…

Net Neutrality Stays The internet is a tool people use every day to talk to people, play games, and do research. What if all the things people do and search on the internet were no longer secret. What would happen if the privacy of internet users were stripped away from them. Today people face fact that net neutrality will be removed, which means that everyone will lose privacy from their own internet providers. This also makes it possible for them to sell people’s search history to anyone such…

help them sell their new vision; eliminating net neutrality to reach maximum profit potential. Over many years, ISP has spent billions of dollars to build towers that bring Americans the Internet. However, they believe that there is too much traffic. Their solution to this problem is the “Internet must go”. ISP wanted to create innovative new ways to charge Internet users for the sites they want; however, the only thing stopping them is net neutrality and keeping the Internet open. Instead of…

The phrase, “net neutrality,” for those of you who have heard of it – and let’s be honest, most of us can’t seem to escape it, especially with the ensuing presidential candidate debates – is not the simplest concept. In fact, it is pretty difficult to explain without the employment of metaphors. Net neutrality refers to the internet and how Internet Service Providers, or ISPs, can control consumer usage and traffic. The neutrality aspect is derived from the principle that ISPs should not dictate…

Net neutrality is a concept that all information on the internet should be treated the same and should not have restrictions by internet service providers. The term was created by Tim Wu, a professor of telecommunication law at the University of Columbia (Thyra). Tim Wu believes that the public should all have access to internet information equally regardless of what it is and how much information is provided. Net neutrality would have been a benefit to the company Netflix when it was restricted…