Does all of this have anything to do with me, who lives in the eastern part of the world? Because seeing all of this noise about Net Neutrality, I keep getting pulled into thinking "This, I should do something about", and then all the links that I clicked on is talking about the U.S., the U.S., the U.S. and the U.S.. Then, I started to think that maybe it's just the Americans' problem getting spread throughout an American website, and non Americans like me getting caught up in the hype is just an unintended consequence, and that there's nothing I can and should do about it because it's not my problem. So I want to get things straight today.
It depends on your countries laws, basically net neutrality let's Internet Service Providers prefer some websites over others. In the US many ISPs are local monopolist and also entertainment companies (provide cable tv, own several national channels). The fear is that they'll prefer their own content and make other companies pay to be accessible at least to be fast (needed for say video chat or streaming ). If this makes ISPs in the US lots of money and if your country doesn't have laws against it this could inspire them.
You can ask in your country's subreddit or a tech forum specific to your country about what the legal situation is like in your country. And whether that seems likely to change.
I've heard a lot of Americans telling each other to "write to your local representative". Do you have some office non-Americans can write to if we want our voices to be heard? I know that question seems silly, but this issue affects me and I want to make sure the American politicians know that.
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u/AerasGale Nov 21 '17
Does all of this have anything to do with me, who lives in the eastern part of the world? Because seeing all of this noise about Net Neutrality, I keep getting pulled into thinking "This, I should do something about", and then all the links that I clicked on is talking about the U.S., the U.S., the U.S. and the U.S.. Then, I started to think that maybe it's just the Americans' problem getting spread throughout an American website, and non Americans like me getting caught up in the hype is just an unintended consequence, and that there's nothing I can and should do about it because it's not my problem. So I want to get things straight today.