LogFAQs > #980153996

A lot of people are saying things in this topic that have zero to do with Net Neutrality and I don't know why that is.

All Net Neutrality means is that ISP's are not allowed to engage in blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization of traffic.

A good analogy is that an ISP is like the Post Office in this case. All your internet traffic is bundled into packets that are all the same size like a standard letter.and the ISP is responsible for delivering these messages back and forth between people.
Blocking would mean that I can send mail, but if I send mail to Phil they just throw it in the trash, blocking it.
Throttling would be where if I send mail to Phil they put it aside in a box and don't continue trying to deliver it until tomorrow.
Paid prioritization, is actually a thing the Post Office does (next day air, priority mail, etc), but the key difference is that those services have no impact on the regular post mail.

Paid prioritization is the most tricky, and also hard to directly relate to the Post Office because the ISP fear is that they combine throttling with prioritization to squeeze consumers. The Post Office is not going to be able to slow down the regular post in order to drive sales of priority.
For an ISP it is as simple as them deciding Phil get too much mail, if you want to mail Phil you need to pay us extra or it will take a long time to get there.