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June 11th 2018, 05:02 PM
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shevek
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lotsa people probably won't be able to afford internet anymore.

That's not actually what net neutrality is about. Providers could already make their service really expensive.

What changed is that now they can charge different rates for hosting a website, based on what you are hosting. For example, if you want to host a news site that exposes corruption of internet providers, they can make it really expensive so you won't be able to pay.

So the problem is not that you can't get internet; the problem is that they can censor it so it contains only things they allow you to see.