[TheRealThing]

Very interested to see what people’s thoughts are. As a college student who watches a lot of Netflix, YouTube and Twitch. As well as playing PlayStation and PC games online this scares me to death.

In that case allow me to put your fears to rest if I can. It was the coming of Net Neutrality as enacted in 2015, that was the threat you needed to fear. Under the terms of NN, "management" had broad and undefined "gatekeeper" powers. In other words they could have charged anything for anything in order to regulate the content on the internet.

Conservative websites were already beginning to feel the regulatory squeeze, so the death of NN came nary a bit too soon. This was in part a move to regulate political opinion and free access to conservative views. Obama complained openly about FOX News for example, nearly every darn day. In one word we were staring down the gun barrel of certain censorship. The left already has main stream media in their hip pocket, the only outliers being FOX News and the conservative sites on the internet. NN guaranteed eventual control of the websites, leaving only a few voices on FOX and FOX Business for the left to worry about.

No the fall of NN protects the internet as you know it.