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Net Neutrality Blog Stage #7

       Net neutrality is  the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites. As of right now, the principle is at high risk, as FCC chairman Ajit Pai has pushed for net neutrality to be destroyed. Without net neutrality, corporations will be able to slow down their services and charge fees for accessing certain websites, like YouTube or even Google. There could be data caps for at-home wifi, much like the data caps seen in cell phone data plans. Our ISPs will be able to control what we access and view online without net neutrality. To preserve net neutrality, citizens of the United States must take action against the FCC and government, as they have done many times before.        This may sound familiar right? Just a few years ago, there was a battle for the same net neutrality in which users and companies across the internet took huge steps of a