Net neutrality used to oversee internet service providers’ control over the content they allowed users to access, but its repeal has created debate over how much of the internet is free.  

Under net neutrality, the content of the internet is freely accessible and companies must allow unbiased access to all of it. Similar to water or electricity, the only difference in services is cost.  

Net neutrality thereby keeps providers from favoring certain businesses and groups while neglecting others. To keep them from killing off threatening competitors to their company, they are forced to improve their own products to keep up.  

“I think we should give the opportunity for smaller businesses to start up in the same kind of environment as the big companies once did,” said Muhammad Abdulqaymov, a WSU junior global politics major.  

Losing net neutrality gives these companies a chance to abuse their power and we should look to reform the law and not just reinstate it as has been done in Washington.