Words cannot express how much I fucking hate this jeet.
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There was a lot wrong with net neutrality, but one easy to understand point of how it would have been bad is that it would have outlawed big internet companies from building CDNs (content delivery networks) at no cost to their users. In true commie fashion, "neutrality" means bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator.
An example of CDN use that we are all familiar with is Netflix. They build out CDNs at major ISPs at no cost, which allows them to deliver high quality video without stuttering to people who have slower connections that normally wouldn't be able to handle that type of streaming. The ISP's would love for everyone to have to upgrade and pay for higher packages in order to stream, but as long as competitors were allowing Netflix to build these CDNs they had to as well in order to compete. If there was a law against it, then they remove the pesky problem of competitors in the free market and can charge their customer base more. It's not just Netflix either, CDNs make our experience online better in just about every way.