The Net Neutrality act can be looked at from many angels and seen as many different things; some say it’s about our freedom to use the internet for whatever we choose to (so long as it’s within legal means). Others see it as preventing Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) from controlling what services we use, or website we visit in order to earn more money. In a negative light, Net Neutrality can be seen as an attempt by “Internet Pirates” to fight a losing battle with publishers cutting down their forms of beating the system. What is Net Neutrality? Well really it can be all of those points, and more, but it’s core roots lay in protecting users ability to access what they want, when they want, and with the privacy people are obligated to. Some of the main reasons the “Net Neutrality” act was created are, the creation of bills designed to control piracy infringing on peoples writes and privacy, the lack of control over how laws are monitored and enforced, and Internet Service Providers creating new media services and preventing use of alternatives to their customers through their networks.
“The Internet is more than just the physical infrastructure over which it operates. It is a vibrant marketplace and an entirely new format for free expression, even a political landscape and a tool for free organization.”(About Net Neutrality) With this technology becoming more prominent in our modern lives, one can’t help but be concerned over the outcome of it’s well being. Over recent times, both in Canada, and the US new bills have been created to stop piracy, though the immediate idea of these bills has good meaning some of the ideas introduced in these bills infringe on peoples privacy and writes. In the US two bills drew the most attenti. .
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