Net Neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that everything on the Internet has no restrictions by Internet providers or the government. Our society is a money making society that is looking for the next best thing to make money on. So far the Internet has been pretty free.

Could you imagine the basic package would be major news sites like New York Times and Dallas Morning News the next package would be FOX and HBO and then the premium package would be all the other sites on the web like blogs.

I don't think this is unfair, I mean we pay for everything already, we just aren't use to paying for the different Internet levels. This would at first be a huge problem but people would have to agree with it if they want to keep their Internet. I think views on smaller sites like personal blogs would be a lot less since most people wouldn't pay for the premium package, and it would probably be very inconvenient if you do just have the basic package. I could imagine reading an article on a major news site and being redirected to another site for more information and not being able to access it because I am not paying for the Internet service level.

People could boycott this and instead of paying for the Internet packages people would go back to reading newspapers, searching for information in a library, and watching television at the times the shows are actually shown. I don't think this would last because the Internet has made everything to convenient and as you are on your second day at the public library still flipping through the same book to get the sum of the information, you would remember the times when you could just google it and have sources for a research paper in a few hours.

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