Net Neutrality Case Study

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The expansion of the Internet in 1983 opened doors to allow endless possibilities for any self-starting company, entrepreneur, student and businessman. It gives the opportunity to gather information, sell products, and connect through an open medium without any restrictions. According to President Obama (2014), Net neutrality is “essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life.” In favor of an open and free internet for the people, I think Net Neutrality is rational and constitutional because it would preserve the end to end principle, it would give the government control over Internet Service Providers regulation of the traffic on the internet, and it would prevent economic monopolies.
To properly understand how the internet is shared it’s important to know how it works. The internet is a web with interconnecting parts made from network systems which provide information in the form of data. This data is shared between wire transmissions that share the data
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According to Lauren Indvik (2013) commerce over the internet topped $1 trillion in 2012. This is astounding because none of this would have been possible if broadband subscribers were unable to search and purchase products freely online. Since the courts ruled in favor of the ISPs, they have the right to manage their own data and speeds. When these companies raise the speed for companies they own and for the companies that can afford to pay for extra bandwidth it is nearly impossible for your average startup company with smaller resources to compete. Tim Wu (2003) states that on either end of the internet consumers and content providers both pay for access to the internet. I SPs should not be allowed to intervene with a customers’ ability to access the internet (Wu ,2003). Net Neutrality is not the permanent solution but should be able to prioritization the consumer and business