Net Neutrality and Justice for All
Net Neutrality is already gone (technically). In December of 2017, the Federal Communications Committee (the FCC) votes on whether net neutrality, a system that keeps internet providers from charging for certain types of internet data, should stay. The vote was 3-2 against keeping it, and net neutrality was officially repealed. However, Congress has gathered enough votes to hold a Congressional Review, which allows the government to overturn decisions by federal agencies (like the FCC). This vote is to be held sometime this week before companies can start to change their payment systems on June 11th of this year (when net neutrality is officially out the window).
In the capitalist point of view, this is a good thing. More money is circulating and companies are receiving money and buying things, however from a different standpoint net neutrality could just about destroy the socioeconomic system.
The American education system already has a huge gap between the education of people who live in higher income areas and can pay for higher education and those who live in poorer areas and are unable to pay to go to college. Schools in low-income districts have a lower infrastructure and less up-to-date teaching systems, which make it nearly impossible for children there to compete with those who go to schools with better funding. And of course, this goes for a college education as well. The expense of college effects nearly everyone who decides to go to college, but students who want to learn and don't have the money to pay for it are left with lower degrees from community colleges or only parts of a college education. The reality is that lower-income people can't pay for the education that students of higher income parents can provide.
The internet has been a changing factor of this. Not only for finding ways to pay for college or learning a new trade to find a job, but many colleges have also added online classes that people can get credit for with a lower price tag than the on-campus options. Online schools have been popping up constantly over the last decade to help people who don't have the time or money to go to traditional high school or college. Aside from classroom learning, people are also able to research new topics to bring them to a higher standing in a workplace. This allows low-income students and employees to compete with their higher income counterparts.
With the net neutrality being repealed people who rely on online educations or jobs and don't have the extra income to pay for the added price of certain website packages will be left without educations and jobs. Most of the time when things such as net neutrality are repealed there are options for lower income people, but net neutrality was the only thing that allowed for the internet to be free aside from the cover charge. Without it, the people who need the internet the most will be left with less job experience and education to compete with higher income people and the socioeconomic gaps will become larger and larger.
Net neutrality was one of the things allowing people to advance in the job market as well as push ahead their learning. It being repealed has led to widespread panic about what the future might hold and Congress is just a few votes away from being able to overturn the decision to repeal it. Contact your representatives if you believe the vote against net neutrality should be overturned and make sure that those last votes really count.
But that's what I think. You?
In the capitalist point of view, this is a good thing. More money is circulating and companies are receiving money and buying things, however from a different standpoint net neutrality could just about destroy the socioeconomic system.
The American education system already has a huge gap between the education of people who live in higher income areas and can pay for higher education and those who live in poorer areas and are unable to pay to go to college. Schools in low-income districts have a lower infrastructure and less up-to-date teaching systems, which make it nearly impossible for children there to compete with those who go to schools with better funding. And of course, this goes for a college education as well. The expense of college effects nearly everyone who decides to go to college, but students who want to learn and don't have the money to pay for it are left with lower degrees from community colleges or only parts of a college education. The reality is that lower-income people can't pay for the education that students of higher income parents can provide.
The internet has been a changing factor of this. Not only for finding ways to pay for college or learning a new trade to find a job, but many colleges have also added online classes that people can get credit for with a lower price tag than the on-campus options. Online schools have been popping up constantly over the last decade to help people who don't have the time or money to go to traditional high school or college. Aside from classroom learning, people are also able to research new topics to bring them to a higher standing in a workplace. This allows low-income students and employees to compete with their higher income counterparts.
With the net neutrality being repealed people who rely on online educations or jobs and don't have the extra income to pay for the added price of certain website packages will be left without educations and jobs. Most of the time when things such as net neutrality are repealed there are options for lower income people, but net neutrality was the only thing that allowed for the internet to be free aside from the cover charge. Without it, the people who need the internet the most will be left with less job experience and education to compete with higher income people and the socioeconomic gaps will become larger and larger.
Net neutrality was one of the things allowing people to advance in the job market as well as push ahead their learning. It being repealed has led to widespread panic about what the future might hold and Congress is just a few votes away from being able to overturn the decision to repeal it. Contact your representatives if you believe the vote against net neutrality should be overturned and make sure that those last votes really count.
But that's what I think. You?
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