How does Net Nutrality affect SE/XIV?

[Lazaruz]

Do you really believe that you’re getting the best Internet speeds right now?

Or is it more likely that companies are already throttling everyone equally and considerably, to save on operating costs?

You do realise that is the point of Net Neutrality, right? That even if a ISP is throttling the connection, they are doing it to everyone, as all internet traffic is to be considered equal.

• Without it, they're free to block sites with content/views the ISP doesnt agree with
• Without it they're allowed to throttle or block your connection just because you want to acess, lets say a competitor to the ISP's own streaming service.
• Without it they're allowed to throttle specific sites just because they dont happen to be on a paid for "fast lane"
• And without it they're allowed to throttle your connection unless you pay for that same "fast lane" (i.e current speed). And just imagine the potential for money grabbing here for a second, because if you think it's just gonna be "a extra $50 and you're done" then you're deluding yourself. Same with the "slow lane" if you really think it's gonna be anything but a damn near unusably slow and bumpy connection

And if we're gonna go there to begin with and argue that ISP's are already running with slower connections then they should, who's to say that you'll even get acceptable speed to begin with if you pay for the "fast lane"

No matter what way you spin it, over all, this is a terrible thing for consumers, as you're being forced to fork over at this point god knows how much more money, plus could have specific sites outright blocked from you, no matter what you pay. Alot of people are ranting about "Fake news". Now imagine if those "fake news" were honest to god your only source avaliable for information about the world