EOTO #2: Reflection on Presentations- Net Neutrality

 After viewing each presentation, learning in depth about net neutrality, caught my attention in many ways. It has always been a subject that I knew about, but wanted to know more details. I recalled a lot from this presentation. 

First, net neutrality is the basic principle that prohibits internet service providers from speeding up, slowing down or blocking any content, applications or websites you want to use. The issue behind it is that Net Neutrality is the way the internet has always worked. When it is left alone, companies can and have violated our basic online rights. If this was ever removed, many issues would rise. For example, Without net neutrality everything becomes about money. Statistically minority households have less money due to discriminatory government policies. This means minorities would lose access to these services that increase their prices. Many pros and cons come from this as well. The pros are that it eliminates fake news, there are no rise in prices, and criminal activities are monitored. Some cons consist of questionable content showing up more because it is not regulated by government and unwanted data mining, which means techniques are used to discover patterns of internet usage.