Something Terrifying is Happening To The Internet and You Need To Know About it!

We’ve been hearing about Net Neutrality lately and we are all getting kinda scared. Is the world of Internet that we are all a part of about to be taken away from us? Are we going to have to pay to use all of our social media profiles?

Something very terrifying is in the works and we hope this doesn’t happen!

What is Net Neutrality and why is it important?

Net Neutrality is the internet’s guiding principle: It preserves our right to communicate freely online.

When you go online, you freely open whatever website you want to and access any information that you need to. You expect to access anything you want, without your data provider messing with the speed of your internet, with the information you are trying to access and the website you are trying to visit.

Simply put, YOU are in control of YOUR internet experience.

All internet service providers must treat all internet data the same and not discriminate or charge differently by who is using it, the website you are trying to access or the content you are trying to look up. It’s basically if your phone provider decides for you who you can or cannot call from your phone list. Crazy, right?!

In 2015, millions of activists pressured the Federal Communications Commission to adopt historic Net Neutrality rules that keep the internet free and open — allowing you to share and access information of your choosing without anyone interfering with that.

But right now, this is in jeopardy and people are fighting to keep the internet as it has been until now.

Trump’s FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, who is a former lawyer who worked for Verizon, wants to destroy Net Neutrality. In May, the FCC voted to let Pai’s internet-killing plan move forward. By the end of the summer, the agency was flooded with more than 20 million comments. The vast majority of people commenting urged the FCC to preserve the existing Net Neutrality rules.

“The FCC would simply require Internet service providers to be transparent about their practices so that consumers can buy the service plan that’s best for them and entrepreneurs and other small businesses can have the technical information they need to innovate.” – said Ajit Pai.

No one wants this change except a few big Telecom companies.

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In an interview by The Nation, former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said: “There can be no truly open internet without net neutrality. To believe otherwise is to be captive to special interest power brokers or to an old and discredited ideology that thinks monopoly and not government oversight best serves the nation.”

Even though they couldn’t just officially declare the Internet as a Human right, The United Nations Human Rights Council gave a statement that said that the same rights that people have offline should also be protected online.

Evan Greer, campaign director for the group Fight for the Future said: “Ajit Pai may be owned by Verizon, but he has to answer to Congress, and lawmakers have to answer to us, their constituents. The corrupt bureaucrats trying to kill Net Neutrality are hoping to avoid public backlash by burying the news over the [Thanksgiving] Holiday weekend. We’re taking our protest from the internet to the streets to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

What would happen if we lost Net Neutrality?

The internet without Net Neutrality is very close to nothing. The internet would become a closed-down network where cable and phone companies call the shots and decide which websites, content or applications succeed.

Companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon will be able to block websites or content they don’t like or applications that compete with their own offerings.

For striving entrepreneurs, small businesses and websites that provide great content, advertise their products and are able to freely reach costumers, they will need to pay the ISPs, or else face being relegated to the slow lane.

People of color, the LGBTQ community, indigenous peoples and religious minorities in the United States rely on the open internet to organize, access economic and educational opportunities, and fight back against systemic discrimination. Without Net Neutrality, it will be harder for them to be heard and for them to tell their stories.

It seems as if their goal is to make money off of everyone that uses the Internet, and to charge you differently for everything that you have been using for free until now.

The FCC will vote on the Net Neutrality-killing plan on December 14th.