Samuel Martin - Supreme Court Won’t Hear Net Neutrality Challenges

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Net Neutrality Challenges

Analysis
Net Neutrality was a bill passed by the Obama Administration that uses federal power to prevent internet companies from blocking or slowing down your internet usage for a higher price. This year, under the Trump administration, this bill was repealed. This means that internet companies can now start charging consumers more or added fees for certain content that they want to access online. On Monday, the Supreme Court has ruled that it will decline all possible changes to the repeal or the bill itself, meaning that there will not be any movement in this area of legislation for a while, or until the sitting justices are replaced or outvoted.

Summary
This article was written on Monday, November 5th, 2018 in Washington D.C. This means that the journalist is very close to the source of information and activity so it is probably accurate. Before reading this article, I already knew about the original bill in 2015 and then again recently when there was the huge fight that ended up repealing the Net Neutrality laws. This reminds me of when the Jim Crow laws which mandated racial segregation, but then later was repealed. Many laws have also been enacted then repealed, like the repeal of the prohibition acts. The audience of this article is all users of the internet in the United States, because it could come to effect all of us. The article was written by Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court, so he would be very knowledgeable about this topic. This purpose is to keep us informed because we need to stay updated with the events and how they could potentially effect us. This article is important because we don't think that good things can be brought to harm us, but now this could negatively effect us and we could have prevented this all along.

Source
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/us/politics/net-neutrality-supreme-court.html