1 Austin Butler Dr. William Matter Subject Name 05 March 2018Free The Internet Since the early nineties the use of the internet has increased substantially due to the increase of media such as video and mp3’s. The ability to share and receive these formats has become so easy due to websites like youtube, spotify, facebook and other social media companies. Thes sites cause a lot of traffic, or large internet activity, by using more bandwidth. ISP’s or Internet Service Providers like Verizon and AT&T sold the right use these activities so there content would only be available through them. Net neutrality is the principle that all content whether it be sites or services should treated equally without any bias based on user activity, content, brand, application or communication. This contentedly forced ISP’s to not make deals with companies to allow a better traffic speed for their content by charging at a higher rate. After a vote by the FCC, Federal Communications Commission, to remove the Net Neutrality,an uproar of support towards a free internet exploded. These Rule restricted ISP’s from slowing down sites or charging access to higher priority companies. While this is not going to cause changes so soon. It presumably means companies will be able to not only charge you for the inter service you use but also the sites and services we use on a daily basis. Big name companies should not have the right to be able to discriminate lesser used net services,due to the lack of usage or popularity. For some companies this topic is seen as a desirable way to improve quality because they are bigger companies with more money. This can be equally, if not more so, harmful to smaller companies just starting up. Many internet application companies like Google,Reddit,eBay,Amazon etc support net neutrality regulation.Google in 2008 stated, opposing market power of broadband providers to control access to their content and other applications. These Site favor an open Internet. Every site or company should have equal opportunity for customers to have access to content across the entire world wide web. Many of these companies are starting to fight back, “Several tech companies including Etsy, Kickstarter, Foursquare and Shutterstock filed a petition on Monday afternoon challenging the Federal Communications Commission's rollback of net neutrality protections”. (Horrowitz,Tech Companies). Any news, website or forum is accessible under net neutrality, given it has legality to exist. Theoretically ISP’s can charge you more or less to use these services. An open internet allows friendly and EQUAL competition, this ensures that a company has un-altered access to their content and level the playing field for larger companies to be treated the same as small start-ups. Portugal, sadly, does not have net neutrality. Their services charge users by the month for using apps and websites. MEO, an ISP there, charge five euro every month to use individual types of content ...

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Austin Butler
Dr. William Matter
Subject Name
05 March 2018Free The Internet
Since the early nineties the use of the internet has increased
substantially due to the increase of media such as video and
mp3’s. The ability to share and receive these formats has
become so easy due to websites like youtube, spotify, facebook
and other social media companies. Thes sites cause a lot of
traffic, or large internet activity, by using more bandwidth.
ISP’s or Internet Service Providers like Verizon and AT&T sold
the right use these activities so there content would only be
available through them. Net neutrality is the principle that all
content whether it be sites or services should treated equally
without any bias based on user activity, content, brand,
application or communication. This contentedly forced ISP’s to
not make deals with companies to allow a better traffic speed
for their content by charging at a higher rate.
After a vote by the FCC, Federal Communications Commission,
to remove the Net Neutrality,an uproar of support towards a free
internet exploded. These Rule restricted ISP’s from slowing
down sites or charging access to higher priority companies.
While this is not going to cause changes so soon. It presumably
means companies will be able to not only charge you for the
inter service you use but also the sites and services we use on a
daily basis.
Big name companies should not have the right to be able to
discriminate lesser used net services,due to the lack of usage or
popularity. For some companies this topic is seen as a desirable
way to improve quality because they are bigger companies with

2. more money. This can be equally, if not more so, harmful to
smaller companies just starting up. Many internet application
companies like Google,Reddit,eBay,Amazon etc support net
neutrality regulation.Google in 2008 stated, opposing market
power of broadband providers to control access to their content
and other applications. These Site favor an open Internet. Every
site or company should have equal opportunity for customers to
have access to content across the entire world wide web.
Many of these companies are starting to fight back, “Several
tech companies including Etsy, Kickstarter, Foursquare and
Shutterstock filed a petition on Monday afternoon challenging
the Federal Communications Commission's rollback of net
neutrality protections”. (Horrowitz,Tech Companies).
Any news, website or forum is accessible under net neutrality,
given it has legality to exist. Theoretically ISP’s can charge you
more or less to use these services. An open internet allows
friendly and EQUAL competition, this ensures that a company
has un-altered access to their content and level the playing field
for larger companies to be treated the same as small start-ups.
Portugal, sadly, does not have net neutrality. Their services
charge users by the month for using apps and websites. MEO,
an ISP there, charge five euro every month to use individual
types of content such as messaging, social, video, music etc..
With Net Neutrality, Netflix can’t pay for easier access to their
content, and free sites like Reddit can be equally as fast. Daily
sites like email and banking wouldn’t cost more to use just
because you need them more. Net Neutrality protected everyone
from fast lane connections or limited access without payment.
Certain sites need or use bandwidth more so than others, ISP’s
argue they would “have less money to spend on upgrading their
networks….If they could charge Google, Microsoft, et al for
carrying their resource-intensive services”(Curtis,The pros and
Cons) to allow a stronger connection all around, but this system
we currently use has been working just fine since The World,
first ISP, started in 1989.

3. A few opposers believe that allowing them to block access to
our content could stop age-sensitive content being easily
attainable to youths. However, all ISP’s Currently allow you to
block these sites or any sites for that matter using your router's
gateway by simply going through and putting on parental
control settings. While most parents probably do not how to do
so, they can just as easy call the companies of who's services
they use and ask them for help or to do so. Smartphones can be
blocked by using these same steps.
“Or how about Google and Skype? They've created services that
let people make phone calls—for free—on networks that we
spent billions to build. Why shouldn't all those services pay
their share?...Because net neutrality protects innovation. If big
companies such as Netflix and Google could pay to get special
treatment—faster speeds, more bandwidth—little startups would
be at a disadvantage.”(Pogue, The Net Neutrality Debate).
Services like hulu, skype, and gaming platform use large
amounts of bandwidth for free through ISP’s networks. Even
though companies do this, we already pay a large amount and
have the option to pay more for better bandwidth. This should
be the line.
Anything can be posted anywhere on the internet, this is
covered under our freedom of speech. Meaning our internet is
uncensored, but as previously discussed we can already control
these things.
The FCC is trying to limit americans free speech to support big
name companies who pay them. We need to realize this is not
only an appalling way to allow monopolies, but also an attack
on our first amendment and our Constitution. The united states
government is becoming the worst monopoly of all, we need
them to know that this should not be allowed and as a
population need to stand up for what this country was built on.
The process has already started with Washington who has
passed a law protecting its citizens against big name services
provider. With more states support we can force them to repeal

4. this atrocity unfairly brought above us.
Works Sited
Curtis, Joe. “The Pros and Cons of Net Neutrality.” IT PRO, IT
PRO, 13 Feb. 2017, www.itpro.co.uk/strategy/28115/the-pros-
and-cons-of-net-neutrality.
Horowitz, Julia. “Tech Companies Take the FCC to Court over
Net Neutrality Repeal.”CNNMoney, Cable News Network, 5

5. Mar. 2018, 3:49 pm,
money.cnn.com/2018/03/05/technology/net-neutrality-
kickstarter-etsy-foursquare-lawsuit/index.html.
Pogue, David. “The Net Neutrality Debate in 2 Minutes or
Less.” Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2014,
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-net-neutrality-debate-
in-2-minutes-or-less/.
Price, Rob. “Portugal Hints at What the American Internet
Could Eventually Look like without Net Neutrality.” Business
Insider, Business Insider, 14 Dec. 2017,
www.businessinsider.com/net-neutrality-portugal-how-
american-internet-could-look-fcc-2017-11.
Kang, Cecilia. “What's Next After the Repeal of Net
Neutrality.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 15
Dec. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/technology/net-
neutrality-repeal.html.