Why Teens Should Know About Net Neutrality - Poree

Well, I know that NET NEUTRALITY isn't a topic that most teenagers want to hear about, but it is in fact, a very crucial thing to be educated in! How would you react if you found out that the government was trying to censor everything you can, and take away one of your born, god-given rights: FREEDOM OF SPEECH! This company called the FCC, is in charge of what people can or can't view on the web, and they can prevent you from using the web if you violate certain rules. But the whole point of Net Neutrality is to get people to understand that all ISP's should be treated equally. Those who provide a pipe to the internet should not be allowed to censor what flows through the pipes!
Now with Net Neutrality, there is a thing called fast lanes. Fast lanes are speed at which data  is connected to individual internet users, which sounds good right? NO! The part that they don't tell you is that the providers can manipulate it whenever they want and if you are looking at something that they don't agree with, they can sabotage you usage! Now this is not the case for other ISP's which is some form of discrimination right? This is just another casein which a form of people are not being treated equalluy.
Also, there are other big companies that think that their content on their browsers are better than other bits that have 'lower class content'. Therefore, they think that the bits in which the information travels on should be on a different level than others. Big companies like Netflix and other media corporations, were so mad that they had to share the same streams, that they tried to put their content into a fast lane, which completely just makes the idea of neutrality pointless. There is no equality among us and what we choose to view or upload on the web as long as the FCC and whoever else is trying their best to censor this! 

Sources:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/26/net-neutrality-dead-age-of-digital-discrimination-is-here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU#t=214



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