Hi guys. I'd like to start this by saying that this gets me incredibly angry. I'm angry at companies for thinking they can hold us hostage with our hobbies, angry at non-net-neutrality advocates for saying that "oh, it'll make internets faster HOORAY" obviously dishonestly, and angry at people for letting this even be a possibility. I will try not to rant.

Cooltime22 here to talk about some Net Neutralities. Some of you might wonder what net neutrality is, so I'll tell you:
Net neutrality is the idea that all content on the internet is equal and should be delivered in the same way.

If that confused you a bit, a net neutral world would be like one big street leading to many department stores and to many driveways: The closer a store is to a driveway, the faster the owner of a driveway can access it. Everyone has the same speed limit, so everyone running on that street goes around the same speed. 

Now, that street is an internet service provider and while department stores - or websites - can be accessed by other streets, you cannot have two driveways to one house - or double the internet connection speed to one user. While technichally you, reading the screen, can have two routers from two different ISPs, it's like having two houses on different streets (aka, expensive and somewhat problematic).  While you're technically the owner of both houses, you have the same acessibility to the main road. Now, high-speed internet is more like hiring someone to clean up the driveway so you can do that sort of thing easier.

However, a non-neutral net is more like taking the one street, splitting it into two, and throwing all the people who won't pay more money into houses on the first street. The owner of the street then proceeds to throw rocks into the street on the one end with all the people who refused to pay. But that's just the truth. Here's an analogy that ISPs rooting for a non-neutral net would be happy about:

An internet with the FastLane implemented is like taking the second side of the street, increasing the speed limit, while charging a small additional fee for people to have a home on the faster end! Hooray!

This is a blatant lie. A non-neutral net means slowing down websites and users that used the regular speed internet while making the "fast lane" the speed that everyone used before the fast lane was implemented. This is not buying a faster pair of shoes, this is buying a key to unlock a ball and chain around your feet. This is not acceptable.

The FCC used to have laws that classified the ISPs as common carriers which means that they had to provide equal service to everyone, in the same way as cell phones cannot intentionally drop calls to other cellular service providers. However, ISPs decided "nope" and those laws were undone. Now, you'd think that the FCC would look at this argument, chuckle, and reclassify ISPs as common carriers - but this is not what happened.

Now, if you're exceptionally unable to extrapolate what this means for you, here it is: Imagine if this blog had to load for five hours. You'd get so frustrated that you'd just do something else; but then, all your ISP's websites and services loaded instantly. Anything that your ISP doesn't agree with can be effectively censored.

Now imagine that your ISP is being controlled by a hate organization or a corrupt government and this gets even more terrible. Anything portraying a certain race in a negative light loads quick, but if you try to spread knowledge and destroy ignorance? Haha, no, you don't get to load. Admitting that you are being tortured and abused by the government? You won't get enough local traffic for anyone to hear you.

This is not acceptable in any sense of the word.

Fight it. Fight for net neutrality; spread the word, do whatever. Don't break the law. Don't censor them.

But fight.

That is all. Thank you for reading.
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-cooltime22