Internet Neutrality

1. What is the fundamental issue underlying the net neutrality debate?

That ISP's can allocate different amounts of bandwidth and speed to content providers depending if they pay more. Also the ISP's can throttle content coming from providers using different ISP's. It also stems to the control of the hardware used by ISP's.

2. List two groups, organizations, or individuals in favor of net
neutrality. Fairly describe their arguments in favor of net neutrality.
Google and Amazon - They argue that internet users should be able to view all content equally, allowing small scale providers to have the same opportunity to show their content. However it would also help them by allowing all users to use their sites at the same speed.

3. List two groups, organizations, or individuals opposed to net
neutrality. Fairly describe their arguments against net neutrality.
Cisco Systems and 3M - They argue that internet neutrality will cause the sudden halt on the development of the internet as most of the money used by ISP's to develop their networks comes from the large content providers and so if this was to stop there would be no more development without the users paying a lot more.

4. What is your opinion on the subject?
I personally am 'on the fence' about this, while it does offer its benefits it also has many drawbacks, and neither side of the argument has enough to cause me to lean in ones favor.