Net Neutrality explained in layman's language

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Providers will soon determine what happens on the internet

You visit a website, but it loads very slowly. The alternative loads quickly, because that is from your internet provider. What turns out: your provider gives priority to its own site. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which, among other things, deals with regulations with providers, has agreed to this. The providers are, from now on, allowed to threat web companies and websites the way they want.

This means that internet providers can allow certain sites to load slow or even block certain sites.


Fast site? Pay for it!

Big companies have to negotiate about the site speed the provider will deliver. And companies as Facebook and Netflix will have to pay for the speed they want, and they have money enough to get what they want.

Many telecom providers are also in possession of content and therefore have an interest in giving their own videos priority.

If the parties can not figure it out, it may just be that the access is closed.

Who pays the bill?

There is also the fear that the costs that companies have to make are passed on to the consumers, who may not always be able to afford that. This could create a sort of first and second-rate internet.

The 60 limited speed digital highway and the 150 fast digital highway.

The fear among proponents of net neutrality is mainly that smaller companies and organizations with less income become the victims of the new rules. And that there is a fast line that they do not get access to because they are not big enough to pay for it.

Small companies don't have that kind of money and will get harmed the most.


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The net effect of this is likely to be the same as pre-2015 when there was no "net neutrality" and everything hummed along fine with happy consumers. The mega corporations that have been using the most bandwidth on ISP backbone providers may have to take a hit with increased cost and will have to deal with it by either attempting to pass along the cost to consumers or accepting that maybe their bottom line takes a small hit.

Consumers in the USA are already used to paying for what you consume. You want fast internet, pay X. You want faster than fast, pay XX. You want to mail a letter that arrives in a few days, pay for a stamp. You want it to arrive sooner, pay more.

You have basically gigantic near-monopolies like Google/Youtube, Facebook, Amazon that don't want to pay more to use the connectivity of other gigantic near-monopolies like ATT, Verizon, Comcast. It's a whizzing contest between the two. The "small guy" isn't going to get priced put of this because he's not consuming major resources and bandwidth.

Bottom line is some people want the Internet in the USA to be government regulated like a utility and others that don't. The aspects of socialism and capitalism colliding. As far as the big players go, one side profits greater than the other depending on whether there is regulation or not. The consumer? Doubt they will see much difference.

Thank you for your contribution about this subject, it's becoming clearer and clearer to me and others

I agree with you and think you did an very good job of explaining.

Thanks for this - almost exactly what I was trying to express in my small way, but I didn't have enough information to verbalize it.

I hope that this will be the case, and the largest companies who have been getting free reign will be the ones feeling the brunt, and not your average consumer.
This makes the most logical sense to me.

It's good to see a differing opinion that doesn't immediately place the whole thing under an 'All is Doomed!!' heading, as we have been seeing all over the media (not just referring to this post, by any means!)

I don't understand why Trump administration has just released its report yet on its plans to deregulate Wall Street!! Why internet should be regulated by big companies as Verizon or At&T which will dictate rules and decide about fate of our sites. Maybe it is better idea to move back to Europe???

[cynism on] You see this wrong, everything Obama has accomplished should be reversed. Whether it´s good or bad, that´s not important, it´s just because the Democrats have made a certain law, and you can not agree on that as a Republican [cynism out]

EU has its flaws too:(

I agree!!!

I am very concerned about ending a net neutrality. We will be required to pay for a premium social media package. We should all keep eyes on news today because attorneys general from "across the country" will sue the Federal Communications over net neutrality rules. These are states which suing Trump's FCC in order to preserve NetNeutrality
-California
-Delaware
-Hawaii
-Illinois
-Iowa
-Kentucky
-Maine
-Maryland
-Massachusetts
-Mississippi
-NY
-North Carolina
-Oregon
-Pennsylvania
-Vermont
-Virginia
-Washington
I'm keeping my fingers crossed!!!

You may send any petition to me

I tune in with Loes, we feel for the US.

Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske

Spain is very beautiful country!!!! I am looking forward to move back to Europe!! I am so fed up of living in the United States where everything is becoming very difficult for average hard working people like me!!!! Have a great Holiday!!

I have sent few petition already as many people did!!! WE DON'T HAVE A DEMOCRACY IN THIS COUNTRY ANYMORE! The Government doe does not listen what people want! It listens what big corporations desire to do to make more money on us!!

Good afternoon Beata,


That is one of the reasons why Michael emigrated last year Aug. to Spain. Of course, I hope I was the main reason.Thank you for your good wishes, the same to you.

Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske

Slaves to corporate greed and gluttony.

I had no idea this was occurring into I read it in an Australian online paper today. Apparently, it is only a US thing at this stage but we all know how often the US starts something and everyone else follows suit. This is not fair for an equal playing field.

Hmm, I hope not always, what this administration is doing shocks the whole world, with their global warming denial and stop Obama care and the refugee policy. I sincerely hope the rest of the world will not follow them on this matter too.

I certainly hope so too but experience has shown Australia is a bit of a sheep when it comes to America. All the way with LBJ!

They're always looking for ways to get more out of us! It's disgusting. It's just like television. I remember when it was free to the public because they got paid through advertising. Then, they came up with cable, so a select few could have "better" TV. Now, we can't get TV without some kind of service that we pay for and we get the pleasure of watching ten times more advertising than ever before unless we buy some other service like netflix. It's disgusting!

Hooray for our suppliers in the Netherlands, we have a pause and record button, and I pause the programs, and zap through all the advertisements within 15 seconds

Have you ever seen the skit "Television delivers People" by Richard Serra?

Have you ever seen the skit "Television delivers People" by Richard Serra?

No, I will have to look for it. Must be good.

Here in Australia we have 3 internet speeds that the end consumer pays for at different rates. The faster the incoming speed the higher the cost.

I pay for unlimited data at the slowest speed and it's fast enough for me. If I watched a lot of streaming video then I may opt for a higher speed.

Our laws are different to USA laws but none of the internet service providers here have done any blocking, throttling or paid prioritization (to my knowledge).

Was the 2015 legislation trying to prevent something which wasn't happening anyway?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-rules.html

How does this affect small businesses? I can't see the internet providers bothering to block or throttle small websites. And how would paid prioritization affect anyone except streaming video servicesand/or website hosting providers?

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thank you Marion, I am glad our law confirms net neutrality, and the Obama law did that too, that's what they want to change now.

Hi Marion. Here in the US we also choose what speed we want to buy, and pay accordingly. The slowest speed will stream movies perfectly well. Unless you have a few gamers in the house lol.

This Net neutrality thing has me really uneasy. I know it was repealed today, but is it seriously gone? We still have a chance to prevent this from occurring right?

I heard that it will take about 4 months for changed to occur, and about a year for all changes to be in place

It was a vote, now they can start lobbying to get this law changed, and yes that 'll take up a year. And they need to convince a lot of people it's for the better. It's not yet a fact, and I hope it will never become a fact.

The providers must be transparent and state if and when they start controlling access speed. Hopefully it will contribute to competition for customers based on the "no speed control" policy.

What our government did today on Net Neutrality is not all that different in what they are proposing for tax legislation and medical care. It’s screw the small guys!

Internet providers will now be allowed to charge for higher speed internet to the major online companies. We all know that large companies do not just “eat” added costs. They pass them along to consumers.

So small companies such as mine will likely end up having to choose between a mediocre internet speed or have to shell out money for a faster service that we are already use to for the business.

For everyday consumers, this will likely mean that you will eventually have to pay for social media if you don’t want to downgrade to a lower level of service including things like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, etc. etc.

It’s the small guys who the government is screwing once again.

You are so right, the peanut gallery will pay the price:(

Loes this is the same old story as been played out over and over throughout history . . . The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Money buys Law and the law is geared in favor of the buyer.

and, history only repeats because we let it.

It's our choice. Resist the propaganda and control. I'm not a slave are you?

ROCK ON!
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So right, no I am not into slavery;)

I only hope that Kyle, Carson and the backstage folks are going to fight for our freedom as strongly as I am prepared to. This will affect all of humanity.

It's not a law yet, I pray for sanity in the Senate:)

Congress has a provision called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) that allows them to overturn decisions made by agencies such as the FCC. From some initial data that I have seen, there are plenty of Republicans as well as Democrats in Congress that don't support the FCC's rolling back of Net Neutrality. Congress has 60 legislative days to overturn the FCC's decision. This means citizens of the United States need to get in contact with their Representatives immediately. Don't assume others are doing this. Everyone needs to call, email, write, etc. Don't wait until it's too late!

I know, this is the first vote, it needs more to change a law, I will sign every petition:)

Yes, please. We, from other countries, depend on you guys. Like tremors in the ocean, government decisions like that, can create tsunami waves that can travel across the globe.

I am with you, Lois! I will sign every single petition available online. I really don't like it what is happening in the United States recently!

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