NDM 19

NET NEUTRALITY REPEAL ALLOWS INTERNET TO ONLY CONSIST OF GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED SITES - THE INDEPENDENT


The article is about the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)  chairman announcing that they would want to repel  net neutrality protections. This would allow internet companies to charge people for specific websites, or only allow some sites to be free.

Campaigner's have shown how the principle of net neutrality could easily be abused, by giving an example from a Portuguese internet provider: 

• "One Portuguese internet service provider forces people to buy their data in parts – paying extra for chat apps or video streaming, for instance – and Facebook's 'Free Basics' internet project has been attacked for only actually providing Facebook and other sites for free."

This would show how similar rules maybe used allowing media  supportive of the Trump administration or other future presidencies to be given out to users for free. Internet companies could also choose to only allow people to access certain sites that were helpful to them, too. 
Service providers have gone against this to say, that they would "want the protections lifted so they can invest more money in infrastructure, but are looking to actively exploit the repeal of net neutrality."

• "With Net Neutrality gone, the flow of information will be controlled on a level people just aren’t thinking about yet.                                                                                            Imagine the lowest priced net service including only Breitbart, RT, Infowars, TrumpTV, Fox News, basic email & Facebook.                                                                                It’ll happen."   - Twitter post b Catherynne Valente

People showing their dissatisfaction of the repel via social media shows opportunities for the audience to challenge their senators through social media platforms such as Twitter and come in contact with alternative views. However, the majority of traditional forms of media reinforce the views of the dominant higher class, as they are owned by large conglomerates that are run by the elite, which as they know having even more power available for them to feed to audience may reinforce the idea that the population are under hegemonic rule, and that the news/elite maintains status quo.