User blog comment:Jkphantom9/Save the Internet!!! Stop the FCC from repealing Net Neutrality/@comment-4023909-20171214042502/@comment-25396609-20171214052348

The law in question is specifically in regards to the USA; in particular it forces ISPs to not change how much bandwidth you're getting when accessing particular sites (also known as throttling) in order to slow down access times for websites they don't like; and prevents them for charging extra fees for individual websites.

In reality, those laws don't do much besides create red tape that companies have to work around, which can be harmful in the long term by preventing small local internet companies from growing when the internet service market is already dominated by large, existing entities.

I'm generally a pessimist, but I personally believe capitalism alone prevents most of those bad things from happening; if one carrier starts limiting or charging for access to websites, people will move to an ISP which does not, meaning they will lose customers for what you might call "pulling a dick move."

Any long term effects of it being repealed are impossible to truly predict though.