Network Neutrality

Network Neutrality “We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.” –Stephen Hawking. This quote by Stephen Hawking is true now but some claim the internet may be in danger. A new policy the United States is trying to adopt is this set of standards called “Net Neutrality”. These standards would push internet providers to keep the internet neutral, and not allow companies to pay providers to speed up their connection and make it a priority over others. People have recently grown passionate about this topic and have begun to choose sides: those who are for, and those who are against a neutral internet. The adoption of more net neutrality rules and guidelines by the United States would lead to more government censorship, less censorship done by the private sector to protect families, and it would endanger the free market with more government regulation. More regulation on the
There are two main problems with this. First, this is a form of private sector investment that allows the internet to stay afloat without taxpayers having to compensate for what the free market cannot. If net neutrality is adopted, one source predicts there will also be a push for nationalizing the internet, leaving American taxpayers to suffer the burden of up-keeping the internet (Kerpen). Second, it is illogical to force an internet where things with a larger amount of data must be downloaded or streamed at the same speed as things that do not have such a large amount. It only makes sense to give priority to movie streaming websites over those who publish news articles because in reality they will load in the same amount of time if the one that requires more bandwidth is allowed to load at a faster speed