Net Neutrality Flash Talk Outline


What is the reference? What did I learn from this reference?
What are the positive (+) and negative (-) impacts on society, economy, or culture?  What do I want people to know about this?
What connections can I make to what I’ve learned about the Internet so far?  
Reference 1 (wikipedia)
(+)
-Data on the internet is treated equally
-Internet service provider’s power is limited
-ISPs are unable to intentionally block, slow down, or charge money for specific websites and online content.
(-)
-Can result in higher taxes
-NN could be used to enable hate speech as it protects the rights of everyone.
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-Created in 2003 by professor Tim Wu
-The internet was getting so big at this point, there needed to be a set of rules that prevented big corporations from taking over the internet and charging lots of money for its use.
Reference 2:
https://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know-now
(+)
-Net Neutrality prohibits ISPs like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon, from speeding up, slowing down, or blocking any content, applications or websites you want to use. Net Neutrality is the way that the internet has always worked.
-2015: FCC adopted historic N.N. rules that keep the internet free and open.
-NN is the internet’s guiding principle: it preserves our right to communicate freely online.
-NN enables and protects free speech online
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(-)
-Trump and his associates want to destroy Net Neutrality.  In May 2017, the FCC voted to keep the plan to kill N.N. moving forward.
-If we lost NN,
-The founders of the internet needed a way to protect what they had built, and this protocol is a good way to index the internet and keep it free and open for all. This was the intention of the internet’s creators, after all.

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