Net Neutrality- Flash Talk

Part 1: Part 1: Pick and Research your Issue (Josh Lim)


●     Your selected issue: Pick one of the issues listed above that interests you the most or that you’d like to know more about.
    
Reference 1: Start by looking at the wikipedia article and scan the article for content related to Internet topics covered in class.
●     The focus of your speech: Find an item or element of the article that interests you on which to base your 2-minute flash talk.
●     Reference: 2 and beyond: Read further about the issue. Find at least two other articles (outside of Wikipedia) that relates to the issue.
Record your research in the organizer provided here:
My Selected issue: Net Neutrality
Focus of my flash talk: Data Discrimination
The position I will take in my talk: Striving for internet equality
What is the reference? What did I learn from this reference?
What are the positive (+) and negative (-) impacts on society, economy, or culture?  What do I want people to know about this?
What connections can I make to what I’ve learned about the Internet so far?  
What details have I learned that support the position I have taken on this issue?
Reference 1 (wikipedia)
Net Neutrality would help many public networks since all types of information going through the network would be managed equally. However, there have been incidents where certain network providers (e.g. Comcast) where they were accused of “throttling”, or slowing down the internet for someone intentionally.
In order to intentionally slow someone down, the internet provider would have to purposely sabotage the sender’s bits’ route so that they wouldn’t be able to come through to the receiver efficiently.
 Many people either want to make the internet freely available as a public utility (e.g. electricity, gas, water, etc.) with internet providers not being able to interfere with anyone’s activity online without a court order.
Reference 2:
Net neutrality is the concept where that people have access to all content and applications equally without Internet Service Providers (or known as ISP) discriminating against certain websites. Without net neutrality, companies can buy priority access to ISP customers.
This could discourage innovative start-up services that  can not purchase priority access from the ISPs. Many bigger companies like Google or Facebook can pay ISPs to provide faster, more reliable access to their websites than to potential competitors.
While the Court made clear that the FCC has authority over internet access generally, it found that the open internet rules specifically were built on a flawed legal foundation. They have to make the decision to re-establish the grounds of net neutrality.
Reference 3:
Net Neutrality means an internet that enables and protects free speech. It means that ISPs should provide us with open networks — and shouldn’t block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those networks. Without the presence of Net Neutrality, an ISP could slow down its competitors’ content or block political opinions it disagreed with. Service providers will have the ability to block any type of content it doesn’t like. This would corrupt the open internet.
Additional connections I have made about the net neutrality concept is that the internet should be controlled by everyone equally. No one should have the right to go into the servers and intentionally block data going public as this is censoring freedom of speech.
Defending net neutrality is the right action to do, as many people will lose the right to speak openly online if net neutrality is taken away. It is up to the government and Trump administration to make the decision.

Part 2. Write the Flash Talk

You will need to submit a written copy of what will be said in your flash talk.
Your 2-minute flash talk must:
  1. Explain the topic or issue, including technical details of the Internet and how it works in the context of the issue you’ve chosen to investigate.
  2. Explain the societal impacts (both positive and negative) related to the issue
  3. Give an informed opinion, position, or call-to-action on the issue
That’s a lot to pack into 2 minutes! So your script for the talk needs to be tight and you need to choose your words well.  (NOTE: 2 minutes of speech is about 300 words of text.)  Use your research organizer to help you focus on what’s most important.  You should probably also practice reading it out loud.

Net neutrality is the concept where that people have access to all content and applications equally as this give us internet that enables and protects free speech without Internet Service Providers (or known as ISP) discriminating against certain websites. However, there have been incidents where certain network providers (e.g. Comcast) where they were accused of “throttling”, or slowing down the internet for someone intentionally. In order for one to slow somebody down, the internet provider would have to purposely sabotage the sender’s bits’ route so that they wouldn’t be able to come through to the receiver efficiently. Without net neutrality, companies can buy priority access to ISP customers. Many bigger companies like Google or Facebook can pay ISPs to provide faster, more reliable access to their websites than to potential competitors. Additional connections I have made about the net neutrality concept is that the internet should be controlled by everyone equally. Without the presence of Net Neutrality, an ISP could slow down its competitors’ content or block political opinions it disagreed with. Service providers will have the ability to block any type of content it doesn’t like. This would corrupt the open wide web. No one should have the right to go into the servers and intentionally block data going public as this is censoring freedom of speech. Defending net neutrality is the right action to do, as many people will lose the right to speak openly online if net neutrality is taken away. While the Court made clear that the FCC has authority over internet access generally, it found that the open internet rules specifically were built on a flawed legal foundation. They have to make the decision to re-establish the grounds of net neutrality.It is up to the government and the FCC to make the decision.

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