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Topic	Someone please explain Net Neutrality to me
Vindris_SNH 12/20/17 9:51:58 AM #2:	Net Neutrality is a government regulation that makes it so Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can't prioritize certain websites over others. For example, your ISP could lower the speeds of google.com and make you pay more money to get the normal speeds. Another example is that your ISP could completely block out CNN or Fox News and make you pay extra to access it. Right now competition between ISPs is how fast speeds they can offer for what price. Soon it could become which internet websites they offer access to for their consumers. Without Net Neutrality, ISPs can cherry pick which websites they give you access to and make you pay more for them, even after you're already paying them for internet access. Without Net Neutrality, Hulu could go to Spectrum (an ISP) and pay them however many millions of dollars per year to throttle the speeds of Netflix, making Netflix speeds unbearable, and making everyone want to move to Hulu. Without Net Neutrality, companies that have a big presence on the internet could shut down competition of other internet start ups by paying off ISPs to the throttle the start up website speeds. So getting rid of Net Neutrality actually inhibits competition and innovation. --- glitteringfairy: Just build the damn wall ThyCorndog: and how exactly will that stop the mexican space program from orbital dropping illegal immigrants? <cite>Vindris_SNH posted [p:892560462] in Someone pl... [t:76118782]...</cite> <quote>Net Neutrality is a government regulation that makes it so Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can't prioritize certain websites over others. For example, your ISP could lower the speeds of google.com and make you pay more money to get the normal speeds. Another example is that your ISP could completely block out CNN or Fox News and make you pay extra to access it. Right now competition between ISPs is how fast speeds they can offer for what price. Soon it could become which internet websites they offer access to for their consumers. Without Net Neutrality, ISPs can cherry pick which websites they give you access to and make you pay more for them, even after you're already paying them for internet access. Without Net Neutrality, Hulu could go to Spectrum (an ISP) and pay them however many millions of dollars per year to throttle the speeds of Netflix, making Netflix speeds unbearable, and making everyone want to move to Hulu. Without Net Neutrality, companies that have a big presence on the internet could shut down competition of other internet start ups by paying off ISPs to the throttle the start up website speeds. So getting rid of Net Neutrality actually inhibits competition and innovation. --- glitteringfairy: Just build the damn wall ThyCorndog: and how exactly will that stop the mexican space program from orbital dropping illegal immigrants?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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