Each year they find another way to charge you, and this law was put in place to stop people like comcast to steal your bandwidth like they are doing now with the new modems..
You do not know what you are talking about.. so stop acting like you do..
Yes, it is a disaster.
I contacted Xfinity (Comcast) about how to lower my bill. The increased my speed from about 35 Mbps to 135 Mbps, cut my cost by $30.00 a month and added a phone line along with my cable TV.
OH, THE HUMANITY!
I'm happy, why should I not be?
net neutrality is geared to stop a lot of things that *could* happen in theory.
in practice, while i've heard of one off incidents, i've never seen it happen enough to warrant being that upset about the lack of "federal regulation" some people seem to think will provide relief to a non-existant problem.
some of these providers would like NN for no other reason than it spells out what they can and can't do and they simply avoid the hassle. so as a definition of a valid business i can get that but it's not the same as stopping them from being assholes to their customers.
people are upset that the bandwidth goes to all the major businesses. well - they pay for it. you want that speed, pay for it LIKE YOU DO NOW and have always done since we laughed at the hayes 2400 baud "smartmodem" like you point out - you buy the speed / bandwidth you want and go. why should i or anyone else have to subsidize someones torrent or gaming server because they use the hell out of it and pay bare minimum?
so eaglewings can cry out in pain and agony all day long but it doesn't mean that the providers are doing the things she seems scared of but can't quite define in day to day use terms. when i tell her she doesn't understand it - at least the same way i do - then i'm a moron trump lover.
some people who can't think are really very binary and yea, time to just move on i suppose and find people who will in fact talk things out.