Net Nuetrality

In the article “Net Neutrality” by Anne Broache, the writer starts off by brining up the issue of the Freedom preservation act. This act is supposed to help prevent the internet from becoming controlled by the big corporate companies such as Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T. These companies want to become “gatekeepers.” Theoretically, they want to charge websites for faster connections. If the sites choose to ignore the companies then they will suffer their sites to load abnormally slow or not at all. This is essentially discrimination against websites, because these companies can choose to make a certain website high-speed or not based upon the websites creator and material.
At first this was a discreet issue, but then telecommunications executives notified they should be able to charge for “premium placement” on their network. This led to internet companies, consumer groups and even the pioneers of internet themselves to promote a “save the internet” idea that would forbid this discrimination from existing.
The writer also states that this bill proposes the idea that all companies must offer standalone services to all customers for purchase. Along with that, the writer says, “a measure would allow prioritization of content, applications or services only if it is done for all types of that particular content, application or service--and without a fee.” This means that Comcast, Verizon, AT&T or any such company couldn’t issue services just for one type of online activity, such as user-generated video, without being available for all users and it must be free.
Jeannine Kenney, a senior policy analyst with Consumers Union, says “The legislation is the first step towards a national policy that will ensure that all consumers, not just the most affluent, have affordable access to high-speed Internet services.” Which I believe is absolutely true. Everyone should be entitled to the same internet without additional fees.
In my opinion, I believe that Net Neutrality should absolutely be conserved. This is just one more thing that huge corporations would be able to take from the average person. I believe that the internet, like the government, should remain in the hands of its users. It should not be used as a tool to monopolize off of, as if these huge businesses didn’t have enough money already. This is just one example of the theory of classes in our society, the richer get richer and the poor get poorer. Even the pioneers of the internet said they in no way intended the internet to be used as a monopoly. They meant for it to be non-discriminative, one hundred percent user friendly, and free to anyone. We shouldn’t let these big corporations boss us around and force us to pay ridiculous fees. We need to take control.