airlines will eventually charge more for a seat on the end and less in the middle if some aren't already doing it. hotels charge for city view, ocean view. darn, states now have pay and no-pay lanes on highways. i could go on and on.
yet they want the internet to remain equal for all? strange!
The difference is that YOU can decide if you want to use that hotel (or whatever else). But there is only one internet. No Hotel can charge you if you drive a way-to-big car (unfortunately? :D) when you get there. Without net neutrality, your ISP can. Or make the hotel effectively anaivailable to you (only from 10am-11am only by feet)
Lets get an exapmple from here in Germany: Telekom is the only big carrier that does not do "free" peering traffic to all the other carriers. So it could mean that your data takes 100ms to 99% of carriers - and 10 secs to Telekom. Video? Gaming?
On the other Hand, the other carriers cannot afford to not pay Telekom - its the biggest carrier there is, resulting from old state monopol (as in most countries).
If Telekom get a gaming website, and slows down the games of all others (except they pay), thats bad for all (Except Telekom). Already tried with video. Own video fast, other video slow - same "weight" of item.
Or put it basically: If A requests data, Why does B charge C instead of A?
A comparison is more like "what if the electric company charged more for people that used more electricity."
So if you use more electricity, the power plant gets to pay it?
That has to be some US speciality. Here in Germany I pay the "Netzentgelte".
I'm the customer asking for data to be delivered at a specific speed. If it's Netflix at fault, charge me more for Netflix and fix your shit. If it's Comcast at fault, charge me more and fix your shit.
Thats the core.
If A hosts something, A has to pay for his side of traffic. If B asks traffic, B has to pay for her GBs.
That has nothing to do with netflix (since it is one case I dont know about).
If A does only pay for 1GB/s and users request 2GB/s, then the users get only half of A. Like any other webside that is overloaded it gets sluggish.
That is "net neutral". You pay for the amount. Not the content.
Net Neutrality is broken, when A has to pay more (or for that matter less) then also-hosting D, E, F. Especially if video service D has to pay more to ISP because ISP owns video service F.
If the end of B is overloaded, any traffic slows down.