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The only content that ISPs would ever throttle is HD or 4K. They have no ability to throttle anything else. Just ask the Chinese who get around the Great Firewall. The really amazing thing about net neutrality (as proposed) is that American consumers will be made dumber that Chinese consumers in getting their content.

Instead of advocating knowledgable use of VPNs and other neutrality and privacy enhancing technology, the net neutrality proponents want the government to run the internet. It is dumb and it is dangerous in the long run.

[Boise3981]

The only content that ISPs would ever throttle is HD or 4K

That's certainly the most likely content to be throttled back. And if that's the only content, then it would benefit Amazon and Netflix and Hulu and hurt the new startup with a good idea but limited funds. But in the big picture, probably not that big of a deal.

But especially in rural areas, HD and 4K aren't the only things that might be throttled back. Any video service takes enormous amounts of bandwidth. So an ISP might throttle down all video unless the creators paid a "fee". That would mean CNN would stream fast and clear while OANN or Newsmax would not. Or a provider with a monopoly on an area (which is a problem in most of the country) who wanted to could, theoretically, throttle back stuff based on an ideology or content they don't like. For example: Comcast, which is a partner with NBC, could throttle back conservative outlets and throttle up MSNBC.

With net-neutrality providers have to treat all content the same. Without it, companies can throttle up or down as they see fit for whatever reasons they want.