Nava - Media Law & Literacy - Blog

    In almost thirty years, the rise of technology related to media and communication has been impressive. The birth of the World Wide Web started with one site in 1991. Today, the number of available websites reaches over 1.74 billion with 59 percent of the global population as active users. The internet and mobile technology innovations contributed to have in 2020 about 2.95 billion people around the world using social media and yet this number is constantly growing, and an expanding amount of 4.41 billion available apps in Google Play and Apple's App Store combined, and with them, digital technology has prompted a change on norms and the way of life to billions of people.     Actually, the technology of today is so interlocked with us as individuals and as a society that it works as part of ourselves to expand our communication capabilities and outreach potential without frontiers, bringing numerous advantages that impact our culture, lifestyle, economy, education, politics, awa

    Net neutrality is a set of rules that were first approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and put into effect in 2015 during the Obama administration which the main purpose is to keep the internet open and fair and prevent speed traps in it. The central principle of net neutrality is that internet service providers should treat equally all data on the internet without charging in a different way depending on the user, content, website, platform, application, type of equipment or method of communication. However, net neutrality rules were officially repealed in June 2018, signifying that the FCC eliminated the rules intended to prohibit internet providers from blocking or slowing down access to online content, as well as the rules for preventing them from prioritizing their own content. Most people in the United States really opposed this reversed decision that was prompted and encouraged by Republicans in Congress, the Trump administration, and leading broadband prov