Question

The Internet empowers enhanced communication on global, national, and local levels. With all of the positive aspects, by its very design the Internet is very difficult to control and over time various societal and legal issues have arisen. For this week's discussion:

Select an Internet controversy and discuss why this issue is significant to society. It will be necessary to research the issue before writing. Feel free to take a position on the issue and include arguments to make your point.

Here are some example topics (feel free to select something different from this list):

• Bandwidth Caps
• Censorship
• Climategate
• Eavesdropping
• Filesharing
• Net Neutrality
• Pornography
• Wikileaks
• Google Books^®/Copyrights
• Fake News

Follow these guidelines below when completing this activity.

• Your initial reply should be 2-3 paragraphs in length (about 200-250 words).

Answer 1

Net Neutrality:

Net Neutrality, or just unhindered internet, is the rule that ISPs must treat all Internet interchanges similarly, and not segregate or charge diversely dependent on client, content, site, stage, application, equipments, source address, destination address, or type of communication.

With this, ISPs may not deliberately hinder, slow down, or charge money for a category or individual online content. Without Net Neutrality, ISPs may favour particular sorts of traffic, meter others, or conceivably block traffic from specific services, while charging consumers for different levels of service.

Social impact of Net Neutrality is huge. Over the years, movements like #MeToo or #OscarsSoWhite have been such gamechangers. Not only did this forced the certain authorities to rethink their decisions, they put a lot of people where they belong for the crimes they have committed and got away with. The current protest in Hong Kong is another such example of why Net Neutrality is a bare minimum requirement and an essential cog when it comes to freedom of expression. We shouldn't allow large organisations, parties or any country to control the means of communication in such a way that it hinders the very existence of "freedom" for the local people, who are likely the least powerful but most impacted in such cases.

Net neutrality has truly allowed people to share their ideas, rally together around them, and talk truth to control in a way that dodges customary media guardians.. These steps made by youngsters have characterized the digital age, however, with no net neutrality, that progress would be in peril.