Argumentative Essay On Net Neutrality

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Net Neutrality
The internet has grown immensely ever since it first started around the time August of 1960 when it was just a proof of concept at MIT. Now the internet is felt like it is a necessity, we must be able to access it all of the time with our smart phones with no more that the fastest speeds possible. The idea of net neutrality is to keep the internet free, and not to priorities speeds for companies who will pay more for it. Consequentialism and the justice theory are helping fight the argument on wither it is wright or wrong. Net neutrality is an idea that needs to be keep because it gives everyone the same chance of accomplishing goals on the internet and freedom of speech.
When the internet first started it was planned to be uncontrolled by any one private person or company. This allowed it to grow the way it did because anyone could access, or even host their own web pages. In January 2010 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made a press release saying that they will start to allow Internet service providers (ISP) like Comcast and Time warner Cable to control the speed of people internet speed more than they did. This would allow larger companies like Amazon and Apple to pay their ISP more too priorities they customers internet traffic to their site making it load faster. …show more content…

Consequentialism relates to net neutrality because people are selfish by nature and the government wants to control over the internet, which was made to be free. Also the justice theory gives everyone the same equal chances to opportunities. Since starting doing this paper in the past few days’ congress and the white house ruled to keep the internet free for now until the FCC tries to fight the net neutrality again. To sum it all up I think the internet should be free and remain free without the FCC taking control over

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