it means the internet is a series of tubes again
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Frankly, it probably means absolutely nothing.
Even when captain coffee cup was the FCC chairman, did you lose the ability to torrent linux isos? Did usenet stop working?
I wouldn't expect anything different this time, either.
against the idea of Net Neutrality
Did this ever actually do anything. The only change I noticed was that shortly after it was repealed we could actually watch YouTube videos at my mother-in-law's hosue (I'm assuming they were paying HughesNet to be able to make their content go faster than the artificially throttled maximum).
With the caveat I'm technical not legal... Its largely kept data caps off domestic lines, but not entirely. Net neutrality has had a couple taking points and its a long fight at the FCC that's gotten weirder by the decade.
Net neutral meant Microsoft couldn't make the MSN dial up network prefer windows network traffic, over the years companies got smart and just opted to pay for peering instead of running the low profit access tunnel.
Google even drops boxes to cache stuff at tiny ISPs/WISPs, but doesn't deprioritize traffic to other end points.
There have been intermittent swings at labeling this the pay to play it is, but since the investment isn't spilling out of public works there's a decent case this is the fastest you could give out access to everyone.
Source: am former network closet guy who racked google cache devices, installed WISP equipment, legal layman.
Companies are going to be slow to adopt to these kind of changes when there's a possibility that they'll get changed back again in a few years