re: Senator Cruz doubles down on Net Neutrality argument

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From what I understand- Obama's version of net neutrality- is equal broad band space for everyone. To me this is just another way for big government to get into the pockets of big internet companies.

This whole internet thing is way above my technical knowledge. Come someone explain this to me in a non-technical manner?

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It's more of making sure that traffic is treated equally. So an ISP cannot slow down any traffic from NetFlix or Amazon video while keeping their content at full speed. Maybe they don't like tigerdroppings so they decide that downloads to their customers from tigerdroppings run really really slow.

To further the point. Say you have Comcast and someone else has Verizon. Comcast wants to charge tigerdroppings, but TD refuses. So now when you click on links on the Poli Board threads take close to a minute to open up. When you try to post half of your requests time out. Your broadband connection appears to act like an old dial up connection. Yet at the same time, someone on Verizon can post as fast as they want and see the board normally. At the end of the day you might give up and go to another site because you figure that TD just sucks. You can't see when its the middle guy (Comcast) who is really screwing things up for you. You lose out. TD loses out. If TD doesn't want to lose half of its customers, it has to pay an extra fee to Comcast. Of course then Verizon can start doing the same thing.

Net Neutrality would prevent Comcast from discriminating against traffic based on who is supplying it.