And exactly no one is going to know the difference at the consumer level. Remember how things were before Net Neutrality? Exactly, there was no difference before, during, or after Net Neutrality. Competition regulates the industry.

Run a speed test and find out for yourself.

BTW, Cell companies were doing this for years until they were busted. Now all of them market no throttling plans. Competition works and if you don't believe me, just remember back to the AT&T/Bell days.

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Tipping works wonders, at sit-down restaurants...

When I 1st went into business + was concerned about the compitition I had an old Jewish friend give me a word of advice (+ I trust a Jew with business sense),he said ,always remember that compition is good for business.

I will concede that net neutrality is much more about business than individual consumer. But think about this. If AT&T as a tier 1 backbone internet provider had bought Netflix instead of Dish, their next move COULD be to allow full streaming at high speed for AT&T customers and not so much for others.

If you combine this with the recent FCC ruling doing away with restraints on what carriers can charge each other for crossing territories, then the individual consumer can certainly be impacted. Again, AT&T not only says you need AT&T for Netflix, but NOW they can also tell CenturyLink or the local cable company that uses them as the "last mile" into their customer's home that the CenturyLink price for them to rent that last mile just went from $1 to $100.

The two combined can have real consequences, especially if AT&T was to say that that last mile they own can support data no higher than say 10Meg without buying Netflix. All hypothetical, but could be very real soon.

Then the real competition begins.

When in the history of business was competition a bad thing? If one carrier/ISP/content provider starts to play games with throughput, another will offer no throttling plans to compete. Nothing in business happens in a vacuum except vacuums.

And if it hadn't been for Judge Greene in 1984, we probably would still be communicating at 2400 baud on twisty pair. Ma Bell and the Death Star was a match made in hell and the government was Satan.

Net Neutrality simply ensured everyone had mediocre service for the future. Now we can pick and choose both as consumers and service suppliers. Viva la competition.

I completely agree with the competition thing. I hope it happens soon. I am just saying things are happening now to make that happen quicker.

There will be pain for some in the mean time, and that is always expected.

I get heartburn EVERY time the Federal government attempts to pick winners and losers. In the end, everyone loses.