The internet.
Love it or hate it, it is one of the most important defining aspects of modern day society.
We rely on access to the internet almost every second of the day.
But what happens, if access to the internet was suddenly restricted?
That could be happening, right now.
The Federal Communications commission may have just killed the internet, by voting to
repeal net neutrality.
Which means that internet service providers will start charging you extra to stream tv
and movies, use youtube as well as social media.
If the US congress votes to, kill net neutrality, they could effectively kill the internet as
we know it, and we will enter into a new age.
What will that age look like?
Today, lifes biggest questions asks, what if the internet was destroyed?
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The internet Net neutrality is an Obama administration
rule that made it so all traffic on the internet is treated equally.
Its how we experience the internet right now: For free, at the speed that we pay for every
month, at an already high cost, I might add.
But getting rid of net neutrality will allow internet service providers to limit access
to some websites, as well as slow down the internet to access certain content.
Much in the way you have to pay for certain TV channel bundles, you will have to pay for
bundles of specific internet services and apps.
The new regulations will allow companies like Comcast and Verizon to charge extra to watch
4k content.
That includes Netflix and hulu.
Not everyone can afford to pay extra to watch Netflix.
So maybe this will mean that Netflix wonít be as popular anymore.
The problem with Netflix losing viewership, is much of the amazing content that is created
for Netflix could lose its funding.
Less and less original shows and movies will be produced, because there are less and less
people streaming.
For those of you who think that Net Neutrality is an American issue, Its not just the united
states that will be affected by its repeal.
The entire world will be.
Google, amazon, Neflix, Microsoft, apple and facebook, are all from the united states.
If internet service providers charge them extra, we, the consumers are going to have
to pay for that cost.
Ok, so youíre not going to be able to access social media and stream 4K content, so what?
Lots of countries like Spain are already charging extra for internet bundles, and they are doing
okay.
The world might not change all that much.
Well, its not just your ability to access social media and Netflix thatís going to
be affected by ending net neutrality.
There are some experts that say that ending net neutrality could affect research, especially
science in a very profound way.
Hereís how, according to the former president of the American Meteorological society, The
AMS depends on access to data and the sharing of information.
Data taken from telescopes in Chile Is sent to physicists in Europe, and because of how
much data is sent, terabytes upon terabytes, that data could take forever to send.
At the same time, students who need to access the internet for research wont be able to
in the same way they are now.
Imagine trying to finish a paper for school, but its taking forever to load the information
you need to access that content.
Students will even have to pay extra to access certain video content in order to finish school
projects.
Repealing net neutrality can also be extremely problematic when it comes to assessing weather
information thatís gathered by satellites, radar and forecast models.
That internet is exchanged through the internt.
60 percent of Americans gets their weather information from internet, smartphones or
streaming services.
ISPs will have the power to slow down the access to this information.
That could pose very serious danger whenever thereís an extreme weather warning.
Poorer people who cannot afford to pay for faster internet service will be most affected
by this.
Imagine not being able to know on the fly when theres a tornado warning.
Maybe a destroying the internet as we know it wouldnít be all bad.
Perhaps if we all had to pay for the internet, more and more people would get off their computers
and phones and experience life first hand again.
Perhaps coffee shops and restaraunts will become overrun with freelancers and students
who are trying to use the free wifi, and people will gather to share information the way they
did during the age of enlightenment.
But then again, maybe all those public spaces that offer free internet wont even do that
anymore.
The fight is not over, you can prevent all of this this from happening, by visiting battleforthenet.com
and writing the US congress and as them to overturn the FCC vote.
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