Introduction

Net Neutrality is the idea that ISP (Internet service providers) should not prioritize any of the content that they handle. For instance, and ISP like Verizon has the power to control what they want to get sent before something else, because after all it’s their cables. If someone wanted to send their content through and they were willing to pay Verizon money so that it would go faster, and thus making everyone else go slower, they could, but the idea of net neutrality negates that. Net neutrality would make it so that Verizon wouldn’t be able to prioritize someone’s website, and therefore it would have have to go at the same speed as everyone else did. On the other hand, net neutrality doesn’t seem like the best idea when you realize that some content, such as video streaming, requires a lot of bandwidth, which can be prioritized by the ISPs, and as a result lead to faster video streaming.

Pro Net Neutrality

One of the main reasons that people support net neutrality is because it shuts down the concept of the rich get richer. Rich companies can afford to pay Verizon money to get their content prioritized, which makes it easier for the public to get their hands on it, and therefore the business with thrive and income may be increased. On the flip side, this will actually hurt smaller upcoming businesses, because they might not have large amounts of expendable money on their hands and therefore will have no chance at successfully competing with a larger company. Net neutrality would even the playing field between small businesses and bigger corporations so that everyone has an equal chance.

Con Net Neutrality

The main argument from people who disagree with net neutrality is that the internet providers, like Verizon, won’t be able to capitalize as much and therefore might not be able to provide as much bandwidth or build new infrastructure to keep thriving as a business and providing us with content. It would also be very annoying for legal services to check to make sure that the ISPs are correctly following these rules, and would make illicit content more widespread.

Conclusion

Now that you have both sides of the argument, which side are you on? Would you prefer to have a less monopolistic internet that might struggle to survive, or would you prefer a thriving internet that is filled with capitalism and corruption. (this is highly dramatized)