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The future of cord cutting is headed down a road of uncertainty. While recent Net Neutrality rules have provided hope for more affordable internet access and content, the future is gloomy for a couple reasons. Not only has there been rumors of the incoming administration overturning net neutrality. There is also a gaping whole in the current Net Neutrality rules. With the 5G wireless spectrum promising faster speeds and more internet coverage nationwide, this gaping hole called "Zero-Rating"…

Net Neutrality Net neutrality has been a part of geeky Internet conversation for years, but has only come into public view relatively recently when the FCC voted to reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities, which will ensure that Internet access continues to be available to anyone with no restriction on the content that’s accessed (Kang). This is a landmark decision that will affect many people over the next few decades. Net neutrality is important to me because it directly…

Shellie Benjamin Professor Jacob Eckrich English 10 8 November 2015 net neutrality With the rise of technology, life has become easy for many. Unfortunately this is not true for all With most jobs now you must have a basic knowledge of how internet and most if not all jobs have you submit your applications online. With wireless internet being part of commerse it allows ISPs controls what prices are for how much data is used and for what. There are those that say that this is a good thing. By…

When the Federal Communications Commission voted in support of net neutrality, Chairman Tom Wheeler was quoted as saying “The Internet is the most powerful and pervasive platform on the planet. It is simply too important to be left without rules and without a referee on the field…The Internet is simply too important to allow broadband providers to be the ones making the rules” (PBS). To ensure the free flow of information and fairness of the digital society, regulation is necessary, but…

Threats to Net Neutrality The FCC adopted strong net neutrality rules that stop cable and phone companies from making fast and slow lanes on the internet. The policies of other parts of the world are taking a different view that can hurt consumers and small internet businesses. The European Council, which is made of 28 countries, ruled that phone companies can charge internet services like Netflix and Google a fee to deliver their content faster than small companies that can't pay…

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…

I feel that Net neutrality is important not only to me but to everyone in modern society. Within my field and career of Information Technology, I rely on the internet for all my work. It is the lifeblood for all that I do. Net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers (ISPs) and governments regulating the Internet must treat all data on the Internet the same (Wikipedia, 2017). In the United States, major ISPs have spent $572 million on lobbying against net neutrality (Bass,…

Net neutrality is an issue that was brought up in the news three months ago when the government revoked it. Net neutrality is a very complicated thing and not many people actually know what it means. Net neutrality is where the government forces internet providers to give all websites the same speeds. That allows startup tech companies to use the same speeds as Facebook and Google. According to the ACLU, without net neutrality there will be two tiers of the internet. The companies that can…

Net Neutrality There was a debate in the late 1990s in the United States about the telecommunication and internet. This debate has signified in private sectors, technical community, academia and civil society. The debate is all about whether the service providers can be prohibited legally from the discrimination against internet network traffic. The “net neutrality” consist of certain principle which has paved into hot debate topic where advocated has introduced policy…

Net Nuetriality YourFirstName YourLastName University title Net Neutrality Introduction Net neutrality is a network plan model that disputes for providers of broadband network to be separated completely from any kind of information that is sent through their networks. In real meaning, it is in argument that no amount of information should be considered above the other (Stiegler, 2013). This rule implies that a network that relays information like the internet is most resourceful and…