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Netyaroze on 18 December 2017
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As far as I understood the removal of Net Neutrality will lead to certain websites and services being preferentially treated and others that are not as mainstream will be disadvantaged. I guess this will have implications for people with small websites as those will load slower and it will possibly loose them money. Unless they will pay the ISPs some special fee. I guess gaming will be preferentially treated atleast if its a big game.

I would love this if I were an ISP CEO as this would mean directly more money in my pocket.

I doubt it will have negative effects soon for the public. They will take advantage of it very slowly so there is no public outcry. I would let the people forget about it and not do anything for 1-2 years.

Then I would slowly start charging all the services like Netflix and Amazon for guaranteed faster access at the expense of all the rest. They would pay hundreds of millions each year for that privilege. This would lead to higher subscription rates and higher costs for the consumer. Since the consumer has no choice they would have to accept the higher costs. Ofcourse they would have an advantage of stutter free high quality content.
But the people who dont use this type of services would be screwed. I would offer a special Internetaccess for double the price per month which is neutral and "boosts" all the services even the less mainstream ones. It actually doesnt boost but gives your own traffic back the status it once had before NN was removed.

I dont see how any of this can be good for the consumer. It will just cost the people more in the US and inconvenience them. The problem is giving more power to a handful of people that have a quasi monopoly position. And the only thing those people are interested in is maximizing profits.

I understand free market is important but in this area the free market can not work because the infrastructure belongs to 4-5 Companies which often have monopolies in certain areas.