The Journey of Net Neutrality Policy

Net neutrality is the commonly accepted name for the ideology that any data disseminated across the Internet can be accessed by its users without any fraction of the data being treated as more or less "valuable" than any other portion. It was an unspoken guideline until the Federal Communications Commission issued an order early in 2015 that defined access to the Internet as more openly available. The layman's common understanding of net neutrality is that it prevents Internet service providers like Comcast from charging their customers more for access to arbitrarily designated types of data from specific domains of the Internet. Before its popularly open status had been established in the 2015 order, Internet access was classified as an information service. In an extremely controversial motion that took place near the end of 2017, FCC chairman Ajit Pai successfully voted to repeal the order so that Internet access would be reverted to this classification. An extremely broad range of commentators expressed that this would allow ISPs to undemocratically censor and restrict the very nature of the Internet as they saw fit and in a fashion that would result in increased profits for them. Following the 2017 repeal, public society was granted a window of opportunity in which a resolution could hypothetically be passed by the U.S. House of Representatives to have the FCC's decision overturned and the previous stipulations reinstated in a quick and orderly fashion. However, the deadline for the submission of this resolution, which is referred to as the Congressional Review Act, is December 10th. Following this date, it would become much more of a struggle to convince Congress to pass new legislation that would establish new stipulations resembling net neutrality's protections. Efforts to convince Congress of the importance of net neutrality's reinstatement primarily take the form of United States citizens calling their congressional representatives to facilitate the vote that hopefully results in replacing the FCC's previous motion. In a highly publicized effort that had been collectively taking place throughout November 29th, many Internet users have used their respective social media platforms to spread awareness of the issue. For more information click here https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/a1hl3g/usredditorstimetomountmoreresistanceonnet/.