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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Net neutrality was more about internet service providers being allowed to, and then forbidden again from, biasing their services towards or against individual websites.
Imagine a big website (Amazon for example) paid an internet service provider to make traffic to their website faster but traffic going to other, smaller online stores go slower. People online are notoriously impatient, so if it seemed like the small stores were always slow, people would start shifting more to Amazon (or just giving up on the small store without buying anything) out of impatience.
Effectively, it would give major companies ways to sneakily strangle smaller companies out of internet traffic and deny them business without doing anything themselves, paying off ISPs to do it instead.
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