I find it sad that my fellow Americans are fighting to take away freedom, instead of fighting the free market with their spending. The government should not have to regulate the internet, people should have a backbone, and fight the corperations if they take advantage.

Taking away freedom and replacing it with regulations is a terrible road to go down.

It will be the 'Great Disappointment' of this generation - hysterical people predicted that the end is near and will be shocked tomorrow to see that the internet will still work, even if some power-streamers will pay a buck more for their 4K netflixing eventually.

Who is more likely to bring censorship? A multitude of independent landline, mobile and satellite internet companies or a single government that finds something offensive to regulate away.

Remember that the FCC censors the word 'fuck' on broadcast TV because it is indecent - you want that institution to set the rules for the internet?

Edit: also this, top troll, got everybody ajitated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFhT6H6pRWg

specifically the republican house

What the fuck did I just watch? Please tell me that's not real

I hope that video gets more down votes than Justin Biebers "Baby" video, Infinite Warfare  trailer, and the Ghostbusters reboot trailer combined.

Wait I got an idea: does anybody personally know Pewdiepie because if they do can you ask him to make a video asking his followers to make it the most dislike video of all of Youtube?

As terrible as the US government is, it is nice to see that they get something right once in a while. NN is government overreach, plain and simple. I know big businesses would like to keep it around to protect their market positions. But, American people and small/medium businesses, as well as start-ups hoping to become big businesses, are far better off with this big business protection scheme.

How does the lack of NN help small businesses? And how do big businesses use NN to protect market positions?

I'm not sure how OP can make those statements while anti-NN actors are also big businesses trying to protect their markets and are hands deep in the federal government.

Yeah, I fear for what the future may have in store, feels like we're going towards a breaking point without any solution.

Example 1 - I own a small business (I really do).  I'd like to pay for internet service that includes only basic email functionality, and access to a very small number of websites.  My company uses very little bandwidth.  However, under NN, it is illegal for an ISP to offer me service that fits my company's needs.  Instead, I have to get nearly the same service as the company next door that produces video content.  They are constantly uploading to Youtube, sending files to clients, and downloading all kinds of stuff for use in their work.  They need access to the entire WWW, and other stuff.  Unfortunately, I have to subsidize their use.  (This same example applies to my grandma's emailing and news reading subsidizing my heavy bandwidth video streaming and gaming).  

Example 2 - If you can sell me products on a website that consumes less data than Amazon.com, and either Amazon or I had to pay for bandwidth used, you'd have a competitive advantage.  But, with NN, you do not.  In that way, Amazon is protected from competition from fieldazon.com.   Same goes for more efficient search, better compression for video streaming, and a whole host of other things.  NN removes the incentive to innovate.  Innovation is what drives small business. 

In fact, even if Amazon didn't have to pay for bandwidth, but was scared of pissing off the ISPs because the ISPs could choose to charge them, you may be able to work from the other side (Amazon limits data to keep bandwidth use low, but you fly under the radar as a small company, and provide me larger, better quality images, or what have you).  

The underlying point is that government regulations always limit choice.  That's just what regulations do by definition.  I want more choice, and I want other people and businesses to be able to choose what they do, how they serve me, what internet service they want to offer me, etc.  Most people generally agree that consumer choice is good.  But, for some reason, a lot of people want to give the Trump administration sweeping power over the internet, and leave us without choices.  

You're correct that big business is on both sides, and that they all are crony capitalists, in bed with government.  But, given this, it is not clear to me why one would want the Trump administration to have so much control over the internet.  Removal of NN takes it, at least in part, out of government's hands.  That's one fewer boot on the consumers neck.