Comcast (or whoever) pays for your infrastructure. (Gaming)

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Friday, June 08, 2018, 07:21 (2365 days ago) @ Funkmon

That's not really what people are worried about with net neutrality. There are countries without any laws at all defending net neutrality and they don't charge for how much you use, they charge for the parts of the Internet you use. Want to use social media? That's $5.99 a month! Want to play video games? That's $9.99 a month! And this is not a piecemeal thing where you just pay that price, that's on top of the price you pay for Internet each month. Net Neutrality was specifically set up to stop companies from doing this type of pricing.

In addition what about small businesses/free sites that want to show content? If Comcast starts charging a premium to have your content show up at anything above 512kbps, even though that company is not using any large amount of bandwidth, there's nothing that company can do, and no protection against it.