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Net Neutrality
is the principle that Internet service providers must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.[1] For instance, under these principles, internet service providers are unable to intentionally block, slow down or charge money for specific websites and online content.
The Debate:
Cons
✷ Terrorists use the Internet as their major point-of-contact medium where it is manipulated and controlled to do their bidding. With regulations on the Internet, there would be a way to control and thus minimize the threat that the Internet causes because of terrorist activity. Regulating the Internet would mean putting a stop to content and activities linked to social unrest, and racial hatred among men and women.
✷ Fraud and defamatory activities spread like wildfire throughout the Internet, where businesses and individuals would be protected against such viciousness if regulating policies were passed.
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✷ Piracy which poses as a threat to those who see free material as a way of harming their chances of being supported financially, is at an all-time high in our day and age. Banning or restricting such websites would steer consumers towards actually buying services and products, as opposed to getting these for free.
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✷ Email spamming would be put to a stop, where damaging content like malware is frequently sent to others inbox. It would also curb away fraudulent acts where people try and access your personal information like bank account numbers and so forth, to gain your information illegally and use it against you. Another prime example is when people tend to fall for emails carrying sob stories about how they need money for surgery. Even lottery money is supposedly won by you, but is accessible only after a certain fee is paid by you before the transaction of the said amount can be made.
✷ Plagiarizing copyrighted material would be put to a stop since many companies that run their work over the Internet have illegal portals copying their content, without giving due credit to the writer / expert / website they obtained the information from.
Pros
✷ Regulating the Internet would automatically mean restricting the flow of information, as well as its exchange. It would suppress people from being communicative and expressive, changing the way information is dealt with over the Internet.
✷ Information would be withheld from the public and not freely available as it is currently. The information we access is invaluable, and for a policy or act to come in and snatch that away, could be the end of the Internet as we know it.
✷ Those who indulge in acts of abuse and illicit activity would only be forced to cover up their tracks better or go into hiding, if policies / acts came up to regulate Internet content.
✷ Information when not accessible in one country is easily attainable through proxy servers that fools the system into believing that you are in another country through a fake IP address, thus allowing you to access information through its software.
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