Net neutrality is something that majority of our nation cherishes whether they know it or not. Most people use internet in their everyday life. I said that to say, why isn’t there more of an uproar in response to the threat against net neutrality? The government has made some changes to try and combat the eradication of net neutrality, but not very many branches of government has actually taken a stand. And why is that? Why is there both limited attention and action on something that should concern us all? And more importantly why is there resistance from the government? There has to be a
underlying reason as to why the government is not particularly interested in solving this problem. Although we may never know, we all have our theories. Govern meant has tried to control the media since the beginning of time and I for one believe this is another extension of that control. Having control over net neutrality ultimately gives you control of media. “The eventual printing of the federalist papers, fueled the argument that the press was vital to American democracy. It was also clear the press had the ability to affect public opinion and therefore public policy”. (American government 2e chapter 8.3). The above statement is an example of just how powerful the press is, and how it affects their policies. Press almost relies solely on the internet to be able to get their messages and programming to the people. If that access to the people is disturbed then their will be a snowball effect of negativity. Of course the plan is not to completely get rid of the internet, but to control it monetarily. Paying more for internet access may limit peoples ability to maintain it, which means less people are using the internet and if less people are using the internet then we will be more uninformed than ever. Im not going to say that that the government is completely resistant, but theres so much more that can be done. “Attorneys general from 22 states filed a protective petition for review against the FCC in the U.S. court of appeals for the district of Columbia.” ( www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/net-neutrality-2019-legislation.aspx ). This is an example that the government has made a few moves to combat the issue, but these states had to individually file petitions, when there should have been an action put in place to cover all states in the protection against dismissing net neutrality. There is no real answer for why the government has not completely solved the net neutrality issue, but my theory is that the government would like to have more control over media and press, therefore its not a priority for them.
Suggest: Based on what you said, “The government has made some changes to try and combat the eradication of net neutrality, but not very many branches of government has actually taken a stand”. My suggestion is that you should give some “bigger reason such regulations should never be enacted lies in the special place the First Amendment plays in our civic life. On the other hand, if the FCC commissioners had a greater respect for the First Amendment, and less for their assumed authority, they would be much charier about assuming the right to forbear any regulation of the press”. https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/230109-forbearing-the-constitution-net-neutrality-and-the-fcc .
In addition to what i was saying, if we check In 2015, “the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted the Open Internet Order to protect Internet users from ISPs throttling traffic, censoring content, and imposing unfair fees. But just a few years later, a new chairman of the FCC killed net neutrality by repealing the Open Internet order. Since then, cable companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Sprint have been rolling out Internet fast lanes and slowing down data being used by competitors’ services.Americans want net neutrality, and we’ve demanded that our lawmakers pass strong legislation to protect our digital rights. The FCC’s leadership can be changed with every election cycle, and recent history has proven that we can’t count on these unlected bureaucrats to consistently defend our online freedoms. The Save the Internet Act of 2019 is a simple, three-page bill that would restore the Open Internet Order by rolling back the FCC’s disastrous decision to destroy net neutrality. If this bill passes the House and the Senate, it will enshrine net neutrality into law. Plain and simple”. In this quote we understand what happened and what are the potential solutions. https://www.battleforthenet.com
When you say “Im not going to say that that the government is completely resistant, but theres so much more that can be done”, you can add a quote after from this cite https://www.freepress.net/issues/free-open-internet/net-neutrality
It says “On Oct. 1, 2019, a federal appeals court upheld the Trump FCC’s 2017 decision to gut Net Neutrality.” You could incorporate this by saying ,” The government isn’t completely resistant to net neutrality, but they Trump FCC… [decided] to gut Net Neutrality” in an appeal in 2017.
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Inquiry: The media isn’t being limited by net neutrality, it is rather having no net neutrality is harming the broadband industry. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-paper-popularized-net-neutrality-180949376/) The website link shows the importance of being competitive in broadband. “The same interest animates the promotion of network neutrality: preserving a Darwinian competition among every conceivable use of the Internet so that the only the best survive.”