The Reddit net neutrality campaign started in my office by a friend running a videogame blog posting the right thing at the right time: https://web.archive.org/

The Reddit net neutrality campaign started in my office by a friend running a videogame blog posting the right thing at the right time: https://web.archive.org/web/20200315191138/https://redditblog.com/2015/02/26/thank-you-reddit-your-efforts-led-to-an-historic-fcc-ruling-and-this-note-from-the-president-of-the-united-states/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200315191138/https://redditblo... I think it is maybe not an accident that this blog post is deleted from Reddit's official blog, but it happened. It happened in Verizon HQ's congressional district too, where their funded representative lost his seat shortly after. I don't post on this as some great authority, it was purely luck and we were small businesses that could articulate why net neutrality was important at the time. Fast forward to today, far less independent sites like his exist, his is gone now. He went to work for a hosting company that seems to be pivoting away from serving small business as they were acquired by a large enterprise firm. This is the concern of someone who pays for hosting, we are used to paying a quota or port, but at our size we rarely have to consider peering and transit costs. Our main concern has been 'channelization' of the net, where plans get sold with only access to major providers. I think on the consumer side, net neutrality terminology has to be worded carefully because back then calls were still mostly a circuit routed thing. We now have good enough networks where everything is IP data and voice must be prioritized to maintain quality of service. I prefer the current reality on most plans where data is de-prioritized after heavy use works better than the old throttle to a certain speed restrictions. Allows radios to get into lower power states quicker and access resources when it's available. Last mile for everything is the main problem out here, Blightspeed/Centurylink is the copper 1.5mbit DSL provider and there's Comcast cable which has no incentive to price compete unless choosing the wireless route (Which is ultimately what I did). I am wary of advocating changing the regulations from where they are currently because we've already witnessed fallout from Section 230 modifications. In any case it's been a weird time the mostly the past 5 years or so, and I think it's hard to motivate people to care on net neutrality when there's so many other related issues that seem more pressing and a whole new adult generation hasn't really experienced the internet as a ton of small websites/companies/projects, they use apps. It's a hard sell.