Thread:TheWikiaEditMachine/@comment-30692944-20171209183431/@comment-26287306-20171210141246

I'll do the best that I can. right now there's a policy in the US called net neutrality where internet providers can't descriminate specific websites, they have to treat all data to and from each website equally. Without net nutrality, internet providers can throttle (in this case intentionally slow down) the speed of specific websites you visit in favor of their company and to favor certain companies over others, allowing them to make more money. This would hurt the ecnonomy because it can prevent new online services from emerging due to throttled speeds from internet providers.

There are only a few people that will vote on December 14th on whether or not net neutrality will stay and many of them are against net neutrality, another one of the many worries of the end of net neutralirty is that other countries would follow the US's lead. Don't quote me on this stuff.