Net Neutrality: It's The Right Thing.

Before reading the article on net neutrality, I already had, what I would call a pretty decent understand of what net nutrality is. Net neutrality is the idea that the Internet should be completely unblocked by the Government and Internet Service Providers (ISP).

                When I was reading through the article “Why You Should Care About Net Neutrality” – by Paul Kapustka, a few key issues really opened my eyes. It appears that major internet companies, such as Verizon and Google have been lobbying for net neutrality in Washington against the government, who have been throwing around the idea of “reclassifying Internet services as telecommunication services” so that they can be regulated to block out content, restrict access, and other forms of internet censorship.

                But what the big picture here is, is price. IF any sort of regulations get passed on the internet, prices are inevitably going to sky-rocket; not just for the prices of having access to the internet, but also putting a charge on the use of sites, such as Facebook, Google, Myspace…you can see where I’m going with this. Not to mention that companies could start using a type of “cell-phone style billing system” of the internet. Lets say that with your current company, you would be alloted 20 GB’s of data per month; this includes searching sites, downloading files (music, movies, games, etc), sending and receiving e-mail. If companys were to charge overages for going over the the amount of GBs that you haver per month, the price would be astronomical.

                Not only is net neutrality the right thing to do, it is also the most cost effective thing to do. Companies that start charging for the usage of sites, and the internet, would be losing money instead of making profit because everybody would be cancelling their contracts and finding either cheaper, more reasonable ways to access the internet, or free ways to access the internet.