WEEK 7, Pt. 1: EOTO, Presentations Reaction on Net Neutrality

 Learning on from Group 4's presentations on policy's was interesting but one of them interested me which was Net neutrality. I knew that ISP's provided the internet, but I didn't know that they could slow down sites if they wanted to. I also knew that they do monitor your internet usage and if a consumer uses like 20 TB of data usage with an unlimited internet plan they probably send them a letter about the high usage and slow down the connection. Another thing ISP's keep track of if you are Torrenting (Torrenting refers to downloading files over BitTorrent, which is a decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol) that is copyright material which is what most people torrent for. 

I believe they should be treated as a utility company like electric and water because the internet has integrated into our society I mean as a kid we did worksheets in class and were given some form of homework. Now ever since the pandemic more and more work is done online and workers saw that it was possible to work from home online forms of entertainment exploded in growth.

Which leads into the fears I realized that these ISPs have a lot of power that could influence how we consume content. An example an online social media site that is Alternative from mainstream tech websites who were banned or censored off of them. So from orders of the government to have that site be throttled making the site slower to load that is fine on the site's end but not from users. Just imagine that any big tech company could lobby ISP's to slow down their competitors not shut them down fully but slowly keep slowing the site's connection like boiling a frog. It does feel like it because of all the major entertainment companies making subscription services seeing how much money Netflix and Xbox's game pass has been making.