Editing Net neutrality (section)

== Regulatory considerations ==
Net neutrality regulations may be referred to as ''common carrier'' regulations.<ref name="auto2">Jensen, Cory. "Net Neutrality." ''American Governance'', edited by Stephen Schechter, et al., vol. 3, Macmillan Reference USA, 2016, p. 326. ''Gale Virtual Reference Library'', http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3629100443/GVRL?u=mcc_pv&sid=GVRL&xid=4d1b573d. Accessed 16 June 2018.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hazlett |first1=Thomas W. |last2=Wright |first2=Joshua D. |date=21 December 2016 |title=The Effect of Regulation on Broadband Markets: Evaluating the Empirical Evidence in the FCC's 2015 "Open Internet" Order |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11151-016-9556-6 |journal=Review of Industrial Organization |language=en |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=487–507 |doi=10.1007/s11151-016-9556-6 |s2cid=157870595 |issn=0889-938X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Net neutrality does not block all abilities that ISPs have to impact their customers' services. Opt-in and opt-out services exist on the end user side, and filtering can be done locally, as in the filtering of sensitive material for minors.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/complying-coppa-frequently-asked-questions#Web%20sites%20and%20online|title=Complying with COPPA: Frequently Asked Questions|date=20 March 2015|work=Federal Trade Commission|access-date=2018-07-02|language=en|archive-date=3 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203040200/https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/complying-coppa-frequently-asked-questions#Web%20sites%20and%20online|url-status=live}}</ref>

Research suggests that a combination of [[policy instrument]]s can help realize the range of valued political and economic objectives central to the network neutrality debate.<ref name="ReferenceC">{{cite journal|last1=Bauer|first1=Johannes|last2=Obar|first2=Jonathan A.|title=Reconciling political and economic goals in the net neutrality debate|journal=Information Society|date=2014|volume=30|issue=1|pages=1–19|ssrn=2910104|doi=10.1080/01972243.2013.856362|s2cid=17970123}}</ref> Combined with public opinion, this has led some governments to regulate broadband Internet services as a [[public utility]], similar to the way electricity, gas, and the water supply are regulated, along with limiting providers and regulating the options those providers can offer.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/technology/net-neutrality-fcc-vote-internet-utility.html|title=F.C.C. Approves Net Neutrality Rules, Classifying Broadband Internet Service as a Utility|date=27 February 2015|work=[[The New York Times]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226212654/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/technology/net-neutrality-fcc-vote-internet-utility.html|archive-date=26 February 2015}}</ref>

Proponents of net neutrality, which include [[computer science]] experts, [[consumer advocate]]s, [[human rights organization]]s, and Internet content providers, assert that net neutrality helps to provide freedom of information exchange, promotes competition and innovation for Internet services, and upholds standardization of Internet data transmission which was essential for its growth.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} Opponents of net neutrality, which include ISPs, computer hardware manufacturers, economists, [[wikt:Special:Search/technologist|technologists]] and [[telecommunications equipment manufacturers]], argue that net neutrality requirements would reduce their incentive to build out the Internet and reduce competition in the marketplace, and may raise their operating costs, which they would have to pass along to their users.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}