F.C.C Keeping the Internet Free

The F.C.C, or Federal Communications Commission for those of you who had no idea what that stood for like myself, is pushing for new rules for what they are calling "net neutrality."  Net neutrality is their idea of keeping internet service providers from charging companies to stream their information through a faster "VIP" internet pipeline.  A practice that is implemented today, this blocking, picking, choosing, and overall discrimination within the internet and what information is more available to consumers is the main focus of the F.C.C's argument and purpose with these rules.  They argue that such practices are dangerous to the free, open, and overall equal grounds of the internet and its relationship to information and innovation.  They also claim that such practices inhibit and damage the nature of innovative "small" ideas such as Facebook in its earlier years.  Such a viewpoint is fairly important and the internet is something taken very lightly by most people in the world today, though protection of one of the greatest ways of communicating and sharing of information and speech with one another is of utmost importance.  Yet the other side of the coin contains the age old freedom within business and capitalism in which the service providers would be undermined with such rules of restriction.  The rules, if passed, would be federal for the F.C.C regulates communication across states.  The F.C.C is an independent agency of the United States government meaning it is part of the executive branch yet the president can not touch it.