Who have
heard that in USA, one week ago, the decision of Net Neutrality was announced?
I guess that people in America are not very happy about the decision, and
neither are we. So the Federal Communications Commission has announced that
they will repeal the net-neutrality law next year which was really helpful in
the Obama-era. And what does it exactly mean?
The end of
net neutrality means that you are being abused by internet service providers. Imagine
that you have to pay more if you want to browse in Facebook or Twitter. Imagine
that you have to pay more to do online shopping by your favourite online store.
Imagine that if you want to watch Netflix, the cost will be increasingly high.
Eventually, imagine that your life is being controlled by internet providers.
The concept
of Internet Neutrality preserves
human right to communicate and to get information without any extra cost. The internet service providers should provide their
customers with open networks. They should not block or discriminate against any
applications or contents that pass through their networks. The reasons behind
the Federal Communications Commission USA has proposed to repeal net neutrality
rules are still disputable. Some of them might argue that the end of net
neutrality would impact customers to have more options about contents, which is
rather senseless.
The
end of net neutrality would lead internet service providers to decide
subjectively who will be heard and who will not. Furthermore, the competition in
technology companies will be dominated by The Big Five. Amazon, Facebook,
Google, Apple, Microsoft are likely the names that would be heard forever if
net neutrality fails. The emerging of new growing start-ups will slightly
decrease. The big companies will pay internet providers no matter how much it
would cost to reach their costumer. The small start-ups would be obviously left
behind because they do not have enough budget. This would have an excessive
impact to society too. Everyone would have different levels of information.
News distribution would not be as rapid as today. The communication platforms
would be determined by internet providers, unless society is ready to an
unreasonable price. The future of internet looks frightful if this would really
happen.
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