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by acheron 781 days ago
Whew, glad we can finally use the Internet again! It's been a long 7 years since the Internet was entirely destroyed.
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I suspect California's "California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act of 2018" had a positive (from users' perspective) "chilling effect" on ISPs, as well as the center-stage focus on the issue itself. No one wanted to be the first to step out in front of that speeding train and get run over in the court of public opinion.

Comcast or Verizon would 100% have started plowing the fertile earth of "fast-lane fees" by now if they could've started doing so quietly.

How does it affect an American in everyday life? I've never known anything but net neutrality in Europe.