What is the Importance of Net Neutrality?
Web users are free to connect to whatever website or service they want with the same speed. ISPs do not bother with what kind of content is flowing from their servers. This has allowed the internet to grow into a truly global network and has allowed people to freely express themselves. For example, you can criticize your ISP on a blog post and the ISP will not restrict access to that post for its other subscribers even though the post may harm its business.
Net Neutrality have a great importance and uses as following
Speed doesn’t matter in Net Neutrality – We can access any website with the same speed. Weather it is new or old. Weather it is popular or no one knows about it.
Name of Website doesn’t matter in Net Neutrality – We can access any website, if we have access to internet. We will have to pay more money as we access any website.
Net Neutrality means Data Equality
Let us take an example – To start a website, you don’t need lot of money or connections. Just host your website and you are good to go. If your service is good, it will find favour with web users. This has led to creation Google, Facebook, Twitter and countless other services. All of these services had very humble beginnings. They started as a basic websites with modest resources. But they succeeded because net neutrality allowed web users to access these websites in an easy and unhindered way.
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