Assignment 8

What is Net Neutrality? Most everyone hasn’t heard of this subject nor know what it is. Net Neutrality is typically referred to the current debate about keeping Internet service providers, ISPs, from prioritizing some information over others ,and having equal access to all information on the Internet with no restrictions on sites, content, or platforms.
Today in congress ISPs are lobbying for the right to give priority to sites. So they can basically charge sites for the privilege to be shown others. Or providing faster speeds for those who pay for it. Like if a web site were to enter into an agreement with the ISP their information would be provided to end-users at a higher rate of speed than others, or would just redirected you to their page altogether. Which this basically means if you wanted to go to reddit.com but digg.com paid Comcast to be shown over reddit.com, when you would type in www.reddit.com Comcast would redirect you to www.digg.com.
This sounds outrageous doesn’t it? We take the current form of the Internet for granted, and it seems unimaginable that this would ever happen, right? WRONG! Lobbies have successfully convinced a number of law makers against net neutrality.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE)
As you can hear, Senator Ted Stevens is against Net Neutrality but obviously has no clue what he is really talking about. I mean has this guy even used a computer in entire life? This is a scary thing happening. Most law makers are of an older generation, like Senator Ted Stevens, and have lived their live without the need for the Internet. So they are easily persuaded in this subject in which they know little about.
Today, we all live on the equal Internet, every site is treated the same. We need access to a free Internet, not a bias one. Please help spread the word and keep the Internet equal….Neutral.
Description of your rhetorical situation:
Net Neutrality is a very important debate that few internet users know little about. The timing of this editorial is set right at the peak of this debate. Obama is even getting into this issue, and I feel this issue needs to better know that it is at the moment.
Situation or context that this editor is written in is more or less like a call to arms short of message. This is written in the hopes that readers will become aware of Net Neutrality, and they might even right their congressmen to state their support on Net Neutrality. This issue must not go to an 2:00am session in which no one will hear about until the day you have limited access to some websites.
My Audience is the “Average Joe” Internet user. I want to appeal the everyday user that does not have a clue to what could happen to the Internet if nothing is done. Basically I want to paint a picture of a black and grey Internet that is mere pathetic joke compared to its former self. Even though if Net Neutrality is implemented it probably will not be that bad, it will not be good either. Freedom of communication is extremely important to maintain and this blog intends to promote this view and make people aware of the potential danger to the sanctity of the internet.
Even though not very many people will read this blog post at least my instructor will read it and maybe a couple of my fellow classmates will as well. As long as one person is made aware of this issue, I can be content.