Current Events > Someone please explain Net Neutrality to me

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Im dumb. I dont understand whats going on. And I dont have the brain capacity this morning to understand what google is trying to tell me.

Someone please make a dumbed down explanation to why its not good or why its good. And what the hell is it

Please. I will give you an internet cookie, and put your name in my sig
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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.
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A) ISPs cant block you from legal websites

B) ISPs cant throttle legal websites

C) ISPs cant give paid prioritization to websites

Somehow these rules were so threatening to the ISPs they needed to be repealed.
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Comcast want to fuck you.

The government said "hey, we probably shouldn't let you fuck people."

Comcast then said "ok, but what if we pay you lots of money so that we can fuck people?"

Then the government went "Ok then, we'll just call it progress and blame the rest on Obama".
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