Assignment 4: Thoughts on Network Neutrality

Pros
- offers protection and freedom
- Encourages creative expression
-Provides competitive market place
-No restrictions
- Allow start up companies to have easy access to new customers
- No censorship meaning can download as much as you want
Cons
-Companies with less money will have slower internet, which people won't like which will lead to no one going to their site
-Sites could be censored
- Sites could be blocked
- provide loopholes for unethical exploits
- Limits markets
- ISP's could block competitors

Some people are opposed of Net Neutrality because they argue that neutrality regulations will slow that advance of high speed internet connection and improvements of infrastructure. Big companies like youtube and verizon are opposed to Net Neutrality because they are very popular sites that many people go on every day, and when a lot of people are on it, they are slow. The big companies have to pay extra for faster internet while people are watching videos for free. People are in support of Net Neutrality because they can access any sit they want with out it being blocked or censored. People also don't have to pay for it either. For example, people are watching youtube videos every day that they get to watch for free and if Net Neutrality wasn't a thing they would have to be paying for it.

Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate ones opinions and ideas using ones body and property to anyone that is willing to receive them. Net Neutrality is tied to the topic "Freedom of speech" because people are allowed to post or say what ever they want on the internet. If Net Neutrality wasn't active then it wouldn't allow people to say or do what ever they want. For example companies like verizon could block social media where we can say anything we want.

The Federal Appeal court denied the right for internet providers to do block/ start charging people to use their websites. The recent news about Net Neutrality would have a big impact on me as a student.  I use/look at youtube videos just about every day, and if i had to start paying to watch videos there would be a huge issue because me being on my own i could not afford that.

Everyone person like my self should be in support of Net Neutrality. I am in support of it because it allows me to access anything i please. Net Neutrality allows me to say or do anything i want on the internet. I can stream videos at no cost. We shouldn't have to fix something that is not broken.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/19/fcc-plans-to-issue-new-net-neutrality-rules/
Fox news is a trustworthy website with quality information. i used this site because it talks about how it prevents large companies to charge consumers for high speed internet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/business/fcc-to-propose-new-rules-on-open-internet.html?_r=0
New York Times is another trust worthy website where in this article provides information about Net Neutrality. Keeping the web free an open is what everyone wants and thats what it should stay like.