Net Neutrality explained in layman's language

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.