As some of you may have already heard, US net neutrality was recently revoked. If you don't what that is, in layman's terms it meant that internet providers had to provide all information and websites equally, so they couldn't arbitrarily slow down service or deny access to specific web sites. The companies that had been pushing for this to go through deny wanting to limit the consumer's options, but in all likelihood many internet providers may start to sell internet access in tiered plans similar to how cable TV works, locking specific websites behind paywalls.
Kevin Warhus, the marketing manager for digital marketing company StringCan Interactive, says:
"Allowing a handful of powerful corporations to decide what websites and information we should be able to access defeats the purpose of this open source frontier. The Internet has always stood as an environment where anyone can make a website or blog and receive equal opportunities to be heard and to grow. By taking away those rights we are essentially handing over our freedoms and going against the foundational values that make The Internet what it is today and what it may or may not be tomorrow."
Honestly, I'm a bit worried that internet providers will abuse this decision, and if they do what the internet a decade from now will look like.
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