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Access To the Internet

Access To the Internet. Nick Baril Media Ethics June 28, 2016. Multimedia Conglomerates. $3.5 Trillion up for grabs Giant telecommunications groups spanning the globe Business of data, software and ideas (Not coal or steel) Local communication hubs

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Access To the Internet

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  1. Access To the Internet Nick Baril Media Ethics June 28, 2016

  2. Multimedia Conglomerates • $3.5 Trillion up for grabs • Giant telecommunications groups spanning the globe • Business of data, software and ideas (Not coal or steel) • Local communication hubs • Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, Israel Silicon Wadi, Bangalore India, Singapore, South Korea and Beijing. • All fighting over the speed of the Internet

  3. Convergence of Internet • Large storage capacity of digital data • Unlimited transmission outlets via satellite • Instant gratification due to quickness of internet • Multitude of screens = Internet access anywhere • Informational hub at the click of a finger • Fear of internet maximum by 2023 (Professor Andrew Ellis of Aston University) • “We’re starting to reach a point … where we can't get any more data into a single optical fiber” – Andrew Ellis

  4. Why is this an Ethical Conflict? • This mega industry is extremely important to the everyday consumer. • In turn, the industry is highly lucrative marketplace for informational corporations. • While the empire grows we, as citizens, are concerned over surveillance, privacy and commercialism. • The government has the capability to misuse the plethora of confidential private consumer data. • Nonprofit organizations may be marginalized by for-profit companies greed tactics. • Users may not be aware or capable of protecting themselves from unnecessary intrusion.

  5. Distribution of the Internet • Inclusive Internet community • Social media world • Financial greed should not compromise consumer accessibility • Federal Communications Commission (FCC) • Net Neutrality • Term coined for the restriction of companies to provide a fast lane and slow lane to access based on price. • Protesters “It’s our Internet. Not theirs (greedy companies)” • Ethical question? • Can we justify allocation of electronic resources to all parties without (monetary or geographical) discrimination? • Translation: Can we make make internet access dependent on price and location?

  6. For-profit crush nonprofit • Without Net Neutrality even more Internet flexibility will arise, Internet providers may offer fast lanes to the highest bidder. • Therefore, for-profit companies – scared to lose Internet consumers – will pay top dollar for fast access to their websites. • While nonprofits, may get pinched because they cannot afford to pay to have website visitors receive a fast lane to their site. They will sit in the slow lane. • Comparison: That be like your television having to buffer to watch Dora the Explorer on PBS, but you get instant access to SportsCenter on ESPN.

  7. Ethical Conflicts • Creating fast and slow lanes means private enterprises create a social deprivation or justice base on merit. • Monetary and Geographical merit • Can we restrict access because a company wants to make more money? • Is price and location a reasonable basis for determining who gets service and where they get it. • Is the Internet an essential need?

  8. Potter Box of Reasoning • Definition • Access to the Internet • Providers want to be able to charge a premium for faster Internet service • Values • Cannot restrict Internet access because companies want to make money • Cannot create Internet deprivation and justice based on corporal merit • Principles • Kant’s Categorical Imperative • Deciding based on moral obligation just as binding as the FCC law • Do not restrict access to what is deemed as a multimedia essential need • Loyalties • To the companies revenue (make more money by Net Neutrality) • To the citizens right to access (cannot hinder access based on price) • To the Internet providers community (same speed access same playing field for innovation)

  9. Works Referenced • Media Ethics- Cases and Moral Reasoning, Ninth edition • https://www.rt.com/news/255329-internet-capacity-collapse-researchers/ • http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/fall11/p211.pdf • https://www.fcc.gov/general/open-internet • http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/03/12/392544534/fcc-publishes-full-text-of-net-neutrality-rules

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