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mooreandrew58 posted...

i'll be honest I don't know much about the thing. I wasn't paying much attention to shit like that when it got enacted. it being repealed was the first time I heard about it, but i'm betting its overblown. not that it won't make things worse just that its not as bad as some people make out. I recall the internet being at the very least ok before it got enacted in the first place.

I was going to leave a snarky comment, but removed that to say the following...

You probably recall that the internet was "at least ok before net neutrality was enacted" most likely because the internet you recall:

1) had vastly different landscape prior to 2010, compared to now
2) effectively had net neutrality enforced anyway, from 2010-2015

The landscape of the internet is now significantly different from the 2000s. Streaming services have exploded, e.g. Netflix popularity has increased five-fold since 2010; online console gaming was in its infancy in the early 2000s, but was an obvious expectation by 2010. And let's not forget Wi-Fi capable smartphones, which didn't enter mainstream until the late 2000s, and exploded in the early 2010s. This is when the tug-of-war between content providers and internet providers began. ISPs obviously wanted to be able to strongly regulate how they are allowed to provide traffic -- for example, prioritizing content for which they have a financial interest, or throttling content for services that compete with their own. Content providers (and content consumers) obviously wanted a level playing field where data was treated equally.
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