I support net neutrality as I understand it. But the repeal of net neutrality in 2017 and its recent reinstatement has had no discernable effect on my personal internet usage. What should I have noticed? Or what should I notice going forward?
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I think it’s worth noting that although net neutrality was repealed at the federal level by the FCC in 2017, many states have net neutrality laws, and the reality is that for a lot of ISPs it’s just easier to practice net neutrality in general rather than try to have different systems for each of those state’s laws.
It’s kind of like how even if you don’t live in California, you’ll still come across a lot of products with labels regarding California’s requirements about chemicals that are potentially linked to cancer. It’s just easier/safer for some manufacturers to put those labels on every item they make, rather than just the ones that necessarily have those chemicals and are expected to be sold in California.
Going back to net neutrality, even when it was repealed by the FCC in 2017, a lot of the ISPs didn’t start prioritizing various websites and signing deals with various sites to do so because it’d be a confusing mess to deal with in regards to state laws, and also because they probably viewed it as likely that federal net neutrality laws would be reinstated whenever a Dem administration took over again.
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