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speed but slowing down the person trying to download pictures from his email. When there is a too much data moving across a provider's line, traffic will slow down. Providers claim they need to be able to choose what slows down, such as a music download versus health monitoring (Farber).
The supporters of Net Neutrality paint a very different picture. While the large Telecom companies use the argument of home health monitoring and remote surgery, they neglect to include the fact that they would be in control of the information you are allowed to see (Google). The consumer already pays to access the Internet. Large companies are trying to make sites like Yahoo pay for access to the network as well. Yahoo argues that without sites like itself, Google, Amazon, and all others, the Internet would not exist and the Internet companies only have business because of them (Oates). Google argues that Internet providers would be able to limit access to websites by making them so difficult to access. If they control the speed of information, they can make a site load so slow, people will not be able to access it. This is a problem because it would allow the Internet companies to filter presidential candidates, news sources, and other sites (Google). Vint Cerf, one of the creators of TCP/IP supports Net Neutrality saying,

"Nothing less than the future of the Internet is at stake in these discussions. We must preserve neutrality in the system in order to allow the new Googles of the world, the new Yahoo!s, the new Amazons to form. We risk losing the internet as catalyst for consumer choice, for economic growth, for technological innovation, and for global competitiveness. (Oates)"
Supporters of Net Neutrality do not want a "pay-for-play" network where sites that pay the Internet providers more get better access.
I have been following this issue for a while and have looked at both sides. It is obvious to me that Net Neutrality must exist until a different way is thought up to solve bandwidth problems. A tiered Internet would allow Internet providers to limit my access to sites, pictures, movies, and other information. And while I would like to think my provider is neutral when deciding what content to limit, I am reminded that people with political and moral views run them. I do not like that conflict of interest. This ties in directly with the issue of censorship from this week's lesson. While I do agree the Internet needs to be improved to allow improved data flow, I think

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