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Net Neutrality Argument Analysis

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You should take a stand against losing Net Neutrality, you should learn for yourself from an unbiased source about Net Neutrality, and you should and can contact the FCC and cause a change, it’s been done before. I personally hate jumping on the bandwagon of ‘This is the big thing we must take a stand against’ only to later find out that wasn’t quite the case and people were getting too enthusiastic and accomplished nothing. This is not one of those cases.

Despite generating a huge public outcry in 2014/15 and protecting Net Neutrality for the time being, it has somehow again become an option considered in 2017. I’d recommend watching these two videos below before continuing, and reading the materials and additional videos below afterwards. …show more content…

Utilities are not things that we agree upon are required for human life, they are necessities needed to live as a citizen of the United States. Phone calls and electricity are not required to exist as a human, but they are requirements to effectively live as an American, and are thus utilities. The Internet is also something that you need to properly live and interact in the United States, to the same level as electricity and telephone lines are, and should be considered and protected as a utility.

Erasing net neutrality would stifle innovation, and allows large ISPs to piggyback off of the prosperity that a previously neutral Internet had. If these rules were in place before Alphabet or Facebook or Netflix or Amazon existed, it is hard to believe those companies would have been able to secure the funds to get through the paywall to consumers, which demonstrates that these attempts to destroy Net Neutrality are little more than an excuse to ask successful companies to pay more and disregard the ramifications to any possible future companies or the history that made certain companies

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