Net Neutrality On The Internet

If big successful tech companies (who are specialists in that area) are against the legislation then obviously, the legislation isn't going to help the internet. It probably says something if Internet giants like Twitter, Wikipedia, Google and Facebook all disapprove of the legislation [4]. They don’t want to be held accountable and take the brunt force of the punishment for the faults of many of their users who themselves aren’t as pressured to comply with the laws. Keep in mind that these tech giants are hosts of millions of gigabytes of data and many of users so it’s not an easy task to keep track of who infringed on copyright. To not be held accountable, they’d have to change how they work at a huge level [4]. Those that support SOPA and
This is a necessary regulation, but it begs the question: why does net neutrality matter? Net neutrality being enforced enables users to communicate freely over the internet. In other words, net neutrality forces internet service providers (ISPs) to follow an open access requirement that prohibits them from discriminating against content providers or charging extra fees based on preferential treatment [6]. This would thwart with tech startups and web services since they would have to pay more fees to be able to compete with larger tech companies [7]. It is the ISPs that stand to make a profit off of the legislation that would eliminate net neutrality and this would enable them to be in charge of calling the shots on the
Now businesses can buy a web user’s personal information (medical, financial, credit card info) if the website they are browsing isn’t encrypted. Consumer’s personal information can be sold off to advertisers and big businesses from the ISPs without the ISPs having to ask that consumer for permission to do so [2]. Now that the regulation has been eliminated, ISPs can sell whatever sensitive info they want freely and advertisers can use that to better market towards consumers. While one can argue that they can avoid this problem by choosing a different ISP that claims they wouldn’t sell they consumers’ info off, it’s not the same for everyone. Some people don’t have much of an option to choose from regarding their ISPs because of their locations