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For the government and IPS, they have two options, control the access or not. Just as a popular saying goes, every coin has two sides. Destruction may not always be negative.

If the government and IPS block and restrain the access to some part of the Internet, they could determine what should be shown and what should to be hidden. In this way, the government could distinguish rumors and block them. Some terrorists or conspirators may spread some well designed and convictive rumors on the website. If the government and IPS keep the net neutrality and do nothing about these, many common people may read and believe the rumors, which could cause huge panic or shock for the country. For normal person, he or she may not have enough specialized knowledge and experience to determine whether it is a rumor or truth, and the for some rumors makers could use some psychological techniques make the rumors cannot be distinguished by normal person. Thus, the control of Internet access by the government and IPS is so important. There are some information and consultation departments, and the experts from these departments could distinguish and eliminate rumors for public. More information doesn’t mean better or more reliable information. Oppositely, more information could make confusion and misleading.

In addition, without the government’s control, it is hard for internet autonomy to block some illegal information (such as gamble, illegal gun trade, human trafficking) on Internet. The most common way to get such information is using search engines and the search engine companies will not anything more than filter the key words. However, filtering key words may not block most illegal information and websites and the Internet companies and search engine will not spend more money in regulating the Internet environment because there is no economic benefit for that companies. For some websites, they even want to attract more visit by posing some horny pictures and information. However, for the government, it has budget on managing Internet, and earning economic benefit is not the government’s purpose. So, some departments of government could work for filtering illegal and harmful information effectively.

However, power is a double-edged sword. The government could use their power to stabilize the society and blocking illegal and harmful information, and could use this power to conceal the government’s scandals. Every party or government is not perfect, and there are always some scandals for it. Internet is fastest and effectively media now, so controlling the Internet is the best way to conceal the negative side of the government. That is why Google is blocked in China and people in China could only use some domestic search engines. Chinese government cannot control and ask Google to block some information from search result, but the government could control domestic Internet companies. This action infringes individual epistemic right (form CARVE).

Also, the control of Internet will be harmful for individual to share different ideas. Form Carve, people have a right to challenge the beliefs of others. For the individuals, he or she should have right to raise any ideas about anything. But, if the Internet access is restrictive, he or she could not post his or her idea on it.

For the other option, the government could release the control of Internet access and make the net be neutral. In this way, the cons of control become pros and pros become cons.

The benefit of release the control will promotes epistemic equality (from CARVE). Everyone could share his or her idea on the Internet with other people. This is good for information exchange. However, the example of rumors will be a counter-example. If there is no restrain, and everyone could post any idea on website, some conspirators could easily make some messes.

Step 4: Justification

The Internet is getting increasingly important in our life, because it is very easy and fast for people to communicate and getting information from it. Thus, some IPS or government may restrict the access to some website or webpages to control common people’s information source from Internet for varies purposes. Net neutrality sounds good because it related to “freedom”, but “freedom” may cause some new problems, such as offering wrong information’s and rumors.

Although the net neutrality could bring some freedom to Internet users, it may not be perfect good to users. Some illegal information websites are harmful to users. Some websites may fabricate and spread rumors to public and people cannot distinguish it is rumor or truth. Thus, the control of IPS and government are important and necessary.

If IPS and government have right to block some website, there is not one or organization could supervise the usage of power. The IPS or government could use this power to block their negative information. Also, they will block the whole website even it only has small portion of incorrect information.

The interference of Internet access from IPS or government may not be easily defined as a good thing or bad thing. It’s a double-edged sword because it will eliminate some bad things and bring other new problems. So net neutrality may not be a Utopia and the interference and restriction of Internet access may be helpful to build a good Internet environment.