com 125 #12

Network Neutrality is a type of subject that is very much overlooked by society both in reality and on the internet. It can be defined as “a principle that is applied to residential broadband networks, and potentially to all networks”. In other words, broadband providers will discriminate between what sites will be accessed and what sites won’t. This is where the concept of network neutrality comes into play. It permits everyone to be able to access whatever they want. It is something that is not really recognized as a major conflict because so far it has not been. With the institution of so many new aspects of technology and the internet combined, you can see why their might be a problem with network neutrality. Some people who are launching new sites, new products or anything or revolutionized on the internet are obviously in favor of network neutrality. It gives them a better chance of having their site or service over the internet to be recognized. Without this, many users over the internet would not be able to witness some of these services provided because they would be blocked by their broadband provider.

The people whose interests are at stake here is virtually anyone who has ever used the internet. It is not fair that some users are able to view some service or use it for that matter, and others are not because of the decision that a broadband provider or whoever is running their internet had made. People who are everyday users, just normal people in society I think are at the biggest loss in this issue. Much of their work, communication and daily living are done over the internet, so why should some of them have access to other things that others may not? The types of interests that are at stake here are essentially the ones that all people have. Whatever the interests may be, whether it is shopping online, playing online games, doing work over the net, running a business, the list is endless. It is basically every interest that had been incorporated from everyday life into a computer networked with millions of other computers. Many applications that probably a lot of users are interested in can be blocked, for no reason, but the decision made by the network provider. This may discourage them and find them selves asking questions about the internet and about the service that they are running the Web on as well.

I am a definite supporter of network neutrality. I am a person who believes that all people. Regardless of what the subject is, should have the same rights to everyone else in that applied aspect. Network neutrality is something that keeps all users of the internet on the same page. It keeps the basic line of unity of all users who access the net on a daily basis in order. I think that with out the concept of network neutrality then there would be much chaos, confusion and disorientation through out the net. Companies would probably go out of business or be bought out by other ones, as well as the interests of people would start to have a declined because of possibly the services, applications or programs that may be blocked or inaccessible. We see today that the internet is obviously better when network neutrality applies, so why would anyone have second thoughts about it. No, it may not be the safest place due to rapists, stalkers, pornography or any of the dirty stuff, but try to imagine what it would be like with it being disoriented because of the discouraged users.