Net Neutrality Research Paper

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Net neutrality has been a hot subject on social media and the internet as a whole or the past month. Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication. The FCC has been working on a bill to repeal net neutrality; the voting takes place in congress on December 14th. The man who has been pushing to make this happen is Ajit Pai, the commissioner of the FCC. If net neutrality is repealed it would it so internet providers could charge a premium to use certain websites and slow down traffic on websites. Net neutrality should not be repealed because the internet has become an important commodity over the past few years and will only continue to grow. The goal should be to make the internet more accessible, not the other way around. …show more content…
Net neutrality makes sure the internet providers like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T deliver the same data speed for all websites. Small startup companies have the same chance of growing into a larger company the same as already bog companies. It can lead one to think that without net neutrality, would companies like Netflix, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, etc, ever grow to be the size they are today? It is not fair for smaller companies that would not have the capital to pay internet providers the money needed for consumers to access them at an equal broadband speed as larger