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    Net Neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites. With net neutrality, you should expect to use the internet and be permitted to use any website or app without being discriminated based on your age, gender, race, etc. Although several might believe that net neutrality is dangerous, however, I find it beneficial. With net neutrality,…

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    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…

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    Everyone in this room uses the internet, probably daily, but many of you may not realise a threat which could harm the way our internet works, net neutrality intends to protect us consumers from the threats. Net Neutrality is often mistaken to be related to censorship, or other seemingly unethical act, that's just a small part, the idea of Net Neutrality is, in a nutshell, that all data carried over the internet should be treated equally. This means that any organisation, government or…

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    load. That could be an everyday reality if net neutrality is repealed. Good morning Mrs. Facciolo and classmates, today I'm going to talk to you about net neutrality, more specifically; what it is, what's happening to it now, and why you should care. Let's get into it. Net neutrality is the idea that internet service providers shouldn't be allowed to unfairly treat or grant special treatment to particular sites and apps. Under the current net neutrality rules, broadband and wireless providers…

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    Net neutrality has recently has been repealed, causing major uproar throughout the nation. Such uproar is justified for ethical reasons alone, as well as the preservation of freedom of speech and overall happiness of society in general. This has the potential to lead to violent rebellion and the development of oppressive governments. The U.S. government does, however, have important laws to protect the rights of the users of the internet, these laws are essential to overall internet safety.…

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    Net neutrality is the idea that the Internet should be free and open to everyone equally. Without FCC regulation, this free Internet can not exist. The present and future world will need the free Internet to maintain the economy and our everyday lives. The FCC privacy rollback that you voted for this past March is a landmark in the decline of these vital regulations. Consumer privacy is important and voting against it is directly working against the people you represent. Consumers do not benefit…

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    In 2010, the Federal Communications Commissions introduced and eventually passed net neutrality protections that became the “first-ever rules to regulate internet access” in the United States (Net Neutrality: A Free and Open Internet). These protections put restrictions on internet service providers, so they would not be allowed to slow down or block internet services for customers. Citizens are overjoyed at the option of equal internet access for all, but this joy is short-lived because within…

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    The controversy around net neutrality is pretty common, many think the government shouldn’t be wanting the people to be paying so much for something that everyone uses in their everyday life for useful purposes, while the other portion aren’t aware of net neutrality and or they simply do not care. Net neutrality limits people from seeing what is fully out there which can potentially be a good idea or one of the worst ones yet. Paying for such a thing, and paying a good price and not getting what…

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    Manifesto of Neutrality With the last frontier of free speech at risk, one must take action against those who threaten this frontier. I urge anyone who supports a free internet to join me and several others on a path that will shake the foundations of the world. The people that wish to eliminate a neutral internet wish to control and regulate it. But what is there to control if there is nothing to be controlled? We must free ourselves from the shackles and only then will opponents of a free…

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    Net neutrality is a term coined by Tim Wu who was a media law professor at Columbia University, This sentence makes no sense, it is the belief that all internet traffic should be treated equally. It became a big deal when in 2007, Comcast was intentionally slowing uploads from “peer to peer file sharing applications.” And they were basically trying to implement limits and differentiate charges for peer to peer, file transfer protocol, and online traffic. The big problem that arose from this is…

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