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Blog 8: Comment on Tony's Post About Net Neutrality

        I both agree and disagree with some of the "Net Neutrality" aspects you commented on. In regard to the growth of businesses, I most definitely agree that the limitations set within the Internet realm can degrade Internet sites, and prevent new sites from being established. The Internet provides a great deal of our media, entertainment, news, and other forms of research. Without the Internet, all of those aspects would cease to exist. In addition, each major "tech giant" that you mention relies on users to function. Some of the manipulation techniques that you mentioned can help give the user a personal set of data that they relate to or find useful. For example, on sites like Facebook or Twitter, they use manipulation techniques to give the user feed that they have commonly clicked on over a period of time.
       On the other hand, the "net neutrality" rule I think can also be helpful. The manipulation techniques do provide users with their personal and unique set of information that specifically pertains to what they like or research often, but this causes users to be less exposed to other Internet things. Having a "neutral" feed of Internet sites can provide users with a more variety of issues, sites, news, etc. In regard to United States government, filtering manipulation through large tech sites can limit users to only one side of the story. With less manipulation users can be exposed to information from across the board, which gives them a more well-rounded perspective of our government.

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