FCC and Net Neutrality effect on Main Street USA
Channel: AaronsLaw 2017
Date: 2017-07-06

Greetings world, the FCC has become a great danger to the internet. The FCC is attempting to strip down and remove title two of net neutrality. Net neutrality is the basic principle that protects our free speech on the Internet. Title Two of the Communications Act is what provides the legal foundation for net neutrality and prevents Internet Service Providers like Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, and AT&T from slowing down and blocking websites, or charging apps and sites extra fees to reach an audience which they then pass along to consumers. The Internet has thrived precisely because of net neutrality. It’s what makes it so vibrant and innovative, a place for creativity, free expression, and exchange of ideas. Without net neutrality, the Internet will become more like Cable TV, where the content you see is what your provider puts in front of you. Let us break it down to you. This is a story about that mom and pop shop down the street. How many of those shops do you normally see now a day? Big businesses and warehouse stores have almost made it a thing of the past. The main reason is because small businesses can’t keep overhead down enough to keep prices competitive with huge chain stores. Luckily the Mom and Pop store down the street are ahead of their time and supplement their income with online sales which greatly help their bottom line. What will that mean for this small family business? What it could mean is that before now online, this small business had a chance – they could stand up and be noticed. They could reach more people, lower their inventory and overhead as well as open opportunities for growth that far out reach their communities. Sounds good, right? We love a good story about the underdog succeeding! But wait what’s this? The FCC wants to take down net neutrality. Small family businesses are being pushed out of towns and cities to make room for big companies with large warehouses and bank accounts and now thanks to net neutrality being attacked and basically dismantled from the inside out small businesses are being pushed off the Internet too. We are taught about the American Dream that if we work hard and keep focused on a goal that we can own a home, a business and make a comfortable life for our families but as many people know that is beginning to be a thing of the past. Not only has Fannie and Freddie helped ruin the dream of owning a home for countless Americans but now it appears that the FCC will attack the American small business owner on the very same platform they had made their last stand, the Internet. We know what you may be thinking, “Anonymous, its ok! Take off your tinfoil hat! Large ISP’s have come out in support of net neutrality, they are only misunderstood!” Our response to this is: are you kidding us? First off let’s be honest these corporations are going to say and do whatever they can to get more money in their pocket, they DO NOT care about the little guy or small businesses and they certainly don’t care about being honest with the public. “But Anonymous, isn’t this just a possibility? What makes you think the big evil companies would ACTUALLY do this sort of thing?” Well, we could start with History since it has proven to be quite the indicator in the past. In 2007 Verizon decided they would block text messages to their customers from Naral Pro-choice America due to their own moral stance. Don’t believe us? Search it up on Duck Duck Go. Whatever your stance on abortion rights you must see the concern here. If companies we pay to give us access to the internet are allowed to pick and choose the information that gets to the public that is censorship at its highest form. Keep the Internet neutral America. Small Mom and Pop businesses have been slowly but surely pushed out of Main Street USA. please for the sake of what’s left of the American dream let’s not let them get pushed from the Internet as well.