Battles Over Net Neutrality Leave Internet In Chaos

Imagine that it is Monday morning and you are stuck in traffic on the highway. You notice that to the left, there is a lane that is completely free of traffic. In order to use this lane, you must pay $100 a month. This is a very similar situation to Network Neutrality. Network Neutrality, often referred to as Net Neutrality, is the current internet situation where everybody's data is treated equally. Internet providers like Comcast or AT&T want to have customers pay more for their bandwidth to be favored and to be handled first so they suggested a new system of data handling for the internet. There would be special

channels in the network that move select"Premium" data packets before the normal data packets. This can create "traffic jams" of data because normal users will have to wait extended periods of times in order to load their internet pages.

I feel that charging for this extra service is unfair because internet traffic has always been treated equally. If this service was provided, most users would pay for it rendering it ineffective for the most part and creating an extremely long loading time for users who do not pay. In April, the FCC was ruled to not have power of Comcast and was unable to stop their throttling of data. Recently, the FCC sided with the public on the decision that the Internet will remain neutral and has just ended a week of negotiating with different internet providers. Overall, I think that this issue can change the internet if the correct decision is not made. Data going through the internet needs to be treated equally so the Internet should remain neutral.