Net Neutrality and Web Search
In class we learned the basics of how the network we know as the “World Wide Web” is organized. Pages organize themselves by relevancy based on their connections to each other. Users then interact with these pages via a web browser and internet service provider (ISP). In many of our discussions, the ISP combined with web browser has not been a factor in how we traverse the web; it is simply taken for granted. This is a product of the net neutrality we’ve been living with for years.
Net neutrality is the principle that the government and ISP’s treat all information equally. Content is not sped up, slowed down, or blocked. This has allowed the free flow of ideas and has made internet platforms like YouTube excellent methods for non-celebrities to have an equal chance at an audience. However, a recent position taken by the FCC threatens to destroy the net neutrality codes which have governed the internet since its adoption. This would mean that content could be censored or slowed down and one of our largest sources of free information could be managed down to the byte.
More information on what legislation has been preserving our net neutrality for the past 2 years and what you can do to keep it that way can be found below.
Source: https://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know-now