"Net Neutrality ensures that all users can access the content or run the applications and devices of their choice. With Net Neutrality, the network's only job is to move data — not choose which data to privilege with higher quality service. Net Neutrality prevents the companies that control the wires from discriminating against content based on its source or ownership" (savetheinternet.com). The fundamental issue underlying the net neutrality debate is about Internet freedom. "Network Neutrality" on the save the internet website, savetheinternet.com, dicusses why users want to keep the internet from being free of use. Big companies such as AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner are choosing what sites are fast, slow or completly unable to even load. These companies are blocking their competators unfairly. The Free Press is in favor of net neutrality. They try to expose big companies such as "AT&T and Verizon of dirty ways they manipulate the public opinion by co-opting not-for-profit groups and aligning their leaders against Net Neutrality" (savetheinternt.com). MoveOn.org is also in favor of net neutrality. The organization is about how "internet freedom is under attack as Congress pushes a law that would give companies like AT&T the power to control what you do online" (MoveOn.org).
"Net neutralism is in that sense a way to repress, or to postpone that which is unmanageable to the future. It is a safe assurance that the relative statelessness, facelessness and independence from commercial actors that the base structure of the Internet has been able to gain from will remain" (handsoff.com). An organization that is opposed to net neutrality is AT&T. They believe that it is alright to have control of the internet as well as the America Channel company. They both "support for an unregulated approach to Internet access in which consumers, not government, choose the method that is best for them; and opposition to government attempts at regulating and/or taxing Net content or commerce" (handsoff.com).
I am all for Net Neutrality because it is not right for large corporations to have control over the internet. It turns users away from certain companies because of the difficulty to use the website. AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and the other major companies have no right to have this control over the internet it is not right because it stops internet freedom.
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