I'm a website developer, can anyone here tell me if I would have to spend extra money to put up a website after net neutrality disappears?  Who would I have to pay that money to?  And would you as a visitor get any of it?  What if I don't charge any money for any products or services on my website?  How am I supposed to afford paying that extra money?  Will I have to commercialize all of my websites just to keep them online?  Will non-commercial websites stay online after the end of Net Neutrality?  Goodbye every website I ever loved, and hello advertisements for stuff I never needed.

Wouldn't a lack of net neutrality mean big companies could bid high enough to slow DTube down?

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This Really clears up the whole controversy over Net Neutrality. If it's going for pro-freedom of speech, censorship free platforms, then I'm going with that.

As a community we need to start looking into ways of decentralizing the internet.

Thanks a lot for sharing these news with us all, it is so important!

I have been a strong advocate of Net Neutrality for years already and the latest movement to try to split the internet in two different speeds is still an important fight we need to keep a sharp eye on.

Thanks a lot!!!   Namaste   :)

Net Neutrality is bull. Nothing ever happened. It's just more legislation which they can use to screw us over. The Free Market is not regulated. Right now, ISPs compete wildly for our business. The less legislation the better.
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And from the horse's mouth:
https://youtu.be/s1IzN9tst28

thnx a lot @joshigurdson for share this news .this news really very important all steemit member or user.
DTube is the best news in recent time

As soon as I read the buzzword "socialist," I knew that the article wasn't going to be an objective look at the issue but rather a sort of political "tribe" warfare.

 Without net neutrality our internet service provider would essentially act as a gateway to our internet experience. As an internet user, we would only get access to the websites that pay the highest prices to the provider and who do not disrupt their established system. So not only would we not have access to small company websites or people who want to share their ideas, but we also wouldn't have access to services like streaming sites. Internet providers who offer cable TV services, aren't going to allow free TV on the internet. Search engines already act as a major filter to the internet and I'm noticing more and more that the sites that pop up when I type in a search, are paid advertisements. This would just get worse without net neutrality. 

The internet would essentially be filtered through a corporate lens. Why would we want to put all of the power of the internet into the hands of a select few corporations?

Now that's the Smack which was needed to get over Net neutrality..
I have had it enough ..that we are going to lose the fight ...
Now show us the victory

very very important news ..

Great at least we can get all the latest information. Thanks keep doing your thing.

Free competition is always the development of democracy.
Competition breeds technological advances and contributes to the development of countries and improve the lives of ordinary citizens. 
We welcome the development of democracy in the Internet space.

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Don't the major internet providers already own most of the infrastructure? How can new competition spring up if the barriers to entry are already so high? Am I missing something here?

I agree that these changes will increase competition, innovation, ect.  But for the best outcome, a large number of small ISPs, or Co-ops, would really hep break things up.  I used to be able to purchace service from a number of mom and pop ISPs.  I had the highest speed and most stable connection of anyone I knew.  It was awesome!  If these changes bring back situations like that    Sweet

Remember when it comes to government it's always the opposite of the what the title says. 

Example:

The affordable care act - Insurance premiums double or tripled for many Americans since 2016. Last year my  insurance went up about 60%. So ya, not so affordable after all and this Net Neutrality law seems like favoritism to mega corporations like google and facebook.