Why Do We Need Net Neutrality?

Net neutrality means that an individual should be free to access all contents which include all websites and online services equally. Whenever an individual logs into internet, he should be able to access any data that is provided on the internet. (Hahn, R. W., & Wallsten, S. (2006)).The main stress of this concept is that Internet service providers (ISPs) should not control access to different sites or services for their benefit. Usually ISPs stop users from accessing some particular sites or even redirect them to some other sites. Net neutrality prevents ISPs from doing this and makes them to provide access to all lawful contents equally to all their users (Norton, W. B. (2001, May)). It also prevents the ISPs from charging for access to any data that it seems to be beneficial for its commercial sale. This was not in practice till now because users of internet were limited to smaller extent and internet did not provide reliable speed. Moreover internet was not seen as the mode of recreation and its use was restricted up to providing information. In today’s scenario almost everyone is connected to internet. Now we need it for almost everything thus ISPs take benefit of this thing so we need net neutrality. It has operated with net neutrality up to this point because earlier it was based on phone lines, unlike the future scenario there were no premium packages for better access to the services. They were barred by internet to do so.
Moreover consumer groups, financial service and innovators also favor net neutrality. These companies can get large consumer attraction through internet as these companies rely on internet a lot. The consumer must be able to reach them easily. It is the main backstay of their