I found prior to Net Nutraulity the internet worked fine, and even after it was repealed it works fine today... Don't by into a fancy name- "Net neutrality" "affordable healthcare" "planned parenthood"--all misnomers IMHO... the free market works fine. If someone wishes to invest in faster ISPs etc.. then those willing to pay the extra cost, can have a fast track pass just like Disney
See this is where it pays to actually understand technology at all, or to try and be actually informed on an issue. NN is exactly how the internet work(ed) fine for the past 20+ years! it is the premise that any data packet you send or receive over the network should be treated equally by your ISP to every other data packet sent or received regardless of source or destination, that's it, that's all.
It's got nothing to do with faster connections for you or anyone else.
Nobody is complaining that comcast, verizon, and cox et al. are going to be building special bigger data links to some businesses. Because that isn't what they were doing or why they are fighting against this. They see you as a commodity that they own because you have s#!t for choices in actual ISPs. They want to charge the companies who's content you want to access for the data they send to you, and any company that doesn't pay up they will simply slow down the traffic coming from in software on their network equipment. This isn't going to result in more innovation in networks or faster internet speeds. In fact its the exact opposite, doing this allows them to not invest in their network as much, because they can throttle the data you the paying customer tries to access down to a speed they decide you should access it at, unless that company also pays them for un-throttled access to you. "Hey netflix, we've got 50 million customers, probably 10million are your subscribers, sure would be a shame if they all were buffering half the night and chose our competing service instead."
They can also throttle things they don't like based on protocol. Things like torrents, other file sharing applications or VPNs, or simply cut off the ability to use outside services like some isps have tried with VOIP phone services. I'll let you in on a little secret, in order to do that they are looking at all the data you are sending and receiving on the network, that's got a fancy term too, deep packet inspection. You know your favorite party just made it okay for them to sell that data too. So on top of throttling your connection to sites that don't pay up they also get to spy on you and sell the data detailing what you and anyone in your household access and when.
In short, don't let your republican masters spout the same old tired bulls#!t and pull the wool over your eyes yet again. Just remember to think for yourself, when they start spouting "regulation bad, free market solves everything, taxes are bad, entitlements the devil." What they are actually saying is this regulation is bad for the giant telecoms and cable cabal increasing their profits without doing any actual upgrading or innovating, but those guys pay for our election and we don't want that to end.
