Some people believe today that everyone has a right to access to the Internet and that governments should provide this access for free. Other people believe that access to the internet is not a right and should be paid for like other services.
Discuss both these views and give your opinion
The Internet has proven to be indispensable in this increasingly digital world. However, in many low and middle income countries, not everyone can afford the access to the Internet, which raises a question of who is responsible for the access fee. Some people argue that the costs spent on the Internet should be fully subsidized by the government whilst there are others who think individuals should use their own money to pay for Internet access. In order to offer an elaborate insight, both perspectives will be discussed below.
On the one hand, there is no denying that access to the Internet should be available to everyone on the grounds that it provides wide-ranging benefits. In terms of education, the Internet has paved the way for online learning programs, which means people with marginalized and disadvantaged backgrounds such as the underemployed, rural residents and the like can take classes remotely and thus, can expand their opportunities. Another justification is that equipment required to access the Internet like computers and smartphones is beyond many family financial status. For instance, a majority of tribal people living in the North West of Vietnam can barely make ends meet, let alone owning a modern electrical device for wireless connection. For this reason, it is considered by some that the government should subsidize the purchases of equipment and provision of infrastructure so that the Internet could be available to marginalized people.
However, I would agree with those who believe that individuals should be charged for using the Internet. Firstly, as with the development of technology, the Internet has evolved from a luxury to a necessity, just like food and clothes, which means it merits being paid by users. Secondly, the fee of Internet access, clearly, costs a huge proportion of the national budget. In other words, some nations may fall into revenue deficit due to the large amount of money spent on Internet access whereas there are ample other problems that need to be financially funded such as starvation, healthcare, education, to name but a few. Furthermore, even when Internet access is free and available to everyone, many people in remote areas still don't know how to utilize the Internet yet. In this case, the government's subsidy seems to have counter-effects and in all probability, the final result may not be equivalent to the enormous amount of governmental funding.
All in all, although there are plausible reasons to believe that citizens’ availability to the Internet is government responsibility, it is my personal view that this is not a one-size-fits-all measure. Instead, the government could take alternative approaches such as appointing teachers and volunteers to rural areas to specifically instruct local people how to use electrical devices effectively and how to derive benefits from the Internet.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 736, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...yone, many people in remote areas still dont know how to utilize the Internet yet. I...
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Line 5, column 797, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...ize the Internet yet. In this case, the governments subsidy seems to have counter-effects a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, thus, whereas, as to, for instance, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 7.85571142285 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 7.30460921844 233% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 41.998997996 145% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2437.0 1615.20841683 151% => OK
No of words: 459.0 315.596192385 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30936819172 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62863751936 4.20363070211 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05729778407 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 176.041082164 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533769063181 0.561755894193 95% => OK
syllable_count: 773.1 506.74238477 153% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 56.0221780107 49.4020404114 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.352941176 106.682146367 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 20.7667163134 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.23529411765 7.06120827912 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.481067455564 0.244688304435 197% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147876093545 0.084324248473 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0779152168162 0.0667982634062 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.29530718123 0.151304729494 195% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109062176455 0.056905535591 192% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 13.0946893788 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 50.2224549098 71% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.48 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 78.4519038076 167% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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