It’s your computer, your internet connection, and your internet, right? You should be able to do and look at what you want, right? Whenever you want, right? Do what you want, take up as much bandwidth as you want, watch video or movies, streaming music, all that fun stuff. You pay your Internet provider, so they’re supposed to work with you, right?
Net neutrality is a concept that was supposed to promise a free and open Internet for the people. Internet service providers aren’t supposed to discriminate against or dictate what you can do on the internet, how you do it, and how much bandwidth you use.
There are threats to net neutrality out there, and these threats are all about money. Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet access want to charge you to ensure smooth surfing on the Internet. They want to charge for web site access, speed level and even device use, more so than they ever have. Websites like Netflix will have to pay, and you’ll have to pay. If a website or application doesn’t pay, sites won’t load or work, and applications and devices won’t work. You may eventually find you can’t access websites you used to be able to access because they are blocked by your Internet service provider.
This “tiered” Internet would be set up to where sites or services that paid to be in the top tier would get a decent running site or service, and the access and running times would decline from there.
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