EOTO Reflection #2

During our Each One Teach One presentations, I learned a lot about different terms and concepts. Many people had great presentations that taught me a lot about some things that affect us every day. The ones I felt that were the most interesting was cord cutting and net neutrality.

The entirety of group four had very good and detailed presentations that all gave good information about media consolidation, cord cutting, net neutrality, The Restrict Act, social credit score, and news deserts.

Cord cutting is when people get rid of their cable or stop paying for it. According to Haley, she stated that cable and satellite TV customers spend over $1,600 per year on channels they do not watch, which has increased by $600 annually since 2019. 

Since 2019, over 5 million people have cut the cord each year. Personally, my family has not cut the cord since my mom still watches the news and a few other programs, but we do purchase streaming services as well as have some included with our Verizon plan. 

Haley also included that cord cutting partakes in "Creative Destruction" which means it destroys age-old methods bringing in the scope for development and innovation. Currently, there are over 200 streaming services that are on the market, with the leading service, Netflix holding over 221.6 million paid subscribers. 

Another presentation that I found fascinating was Jesse's topic of net neutrality. Net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers should give equal access to content, applications, data seeds, and more without any bias towards specific websites or groups of people. Some websites have even been found guilty of slowing down websites for people who aren't subscribed to their premium sites, and even placing more ads and disruptions for those people as well. Without net neutrality, we'd have unequal internet access.