Companies that support eliminating Net Neutrality Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and the National Music Publishers Association—are all opposed to neutrality. (Drutman and Furnas)
Eliminating
Net Neutrality Kyrin Kuhn What is Net Neutrality?
Companies that support keeping Net Neutrality Yahoo!, Vonage, eBay, Amazon, IAC/ InterActiveCorp, Microsoft, Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, Daily Kos, Greenpeace, Facebook, many activist groups and more.
In 2015 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took down the regulations to ensure equal access to the internet—also known as Net Neutrality. “The regulations classify broadband access as a telecommunications service, which subjects it to ‘common carrier’ provisions that bar Internet service providers from discriminating against how broadband is used.” (Nusca). In other words, the regulations that classify internet as a telecommunications service, subjects it to common carrier provisions that stop internet service providers from discriminating against how the internet is used.
How does eliminating Net Neutrality affect me?
How can I help keep Net Neutrality available for everyone? If you wish to keep Net Neutrality available for everyone, you can help by signing a petition on www.battleforthenet.com
Eliminating Net Neutrality would be like how you pay for your cable; to pay for your internet you would be able to package some websites together and the price would range accordingly. “The 2015 regulations makes it possible for telecom companies to force consumer Internet companies to pay for faster connections” (Nusca). This shows that if you wanted to visit a website that your internet provider doesn’t support, they would not only charge you for visiting the site but also have the connection slower than usual.
What else would this affect?
Eliminating Net Neutrality would affect more than the customers purchasing interment, it would also affect small businesses, entrepreneurs, and create and unequal playing field against big businesses. It would affect small businesses because if the
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