Money, money, money, there's always someone trying to extort the common mass. Since the creation of the internet, various debates on how it should be regulated have appeared from time and time again. The internet has always been deemed as another platform of expression to the public. Recently during the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 Ajit Pai proposed a bill on net neutrality. As ABC and BBC news explained, the bill basically results in everyone paying additional fees to access and use websites on the internet. This bill is as bad as the Bourbon Reforms. Rachel O'Toole and Scorer, “Andean Self-Fashioning,” explained that the bourbon reforms created policies that increased the taxes on various products to extort the common folk. Just as raising taxes will hurt businesses, raising prices to access websites on the internet will discourage and hurt new business causing a downfall in our economy. In the past the people revolted against the bourbon reforms, and people will revolt again against its newer and altered appearance in today's economy. Various people have publicly addressed this bill as shown below and it's important for people to voice out against these forms of extortion and keep an empire prosperous.
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