How will Net Neutrality repeal affect TFP?

Jim can probably speak more intelligently to this, but probably not a significant difference with regard to TFP. Net neutrality has the potential to effect data transfer speed so you would see it in more transfer intense processes like streaming a movie from Netflix or watching high def youtube videos. Depending on the ISP carriers and what type of service you have these types of heavy data streaming applications or uses could be effected. It will be interesting to see the outcome because neither side knows with certainty what the outcome will be.

 

It's entirely possible that a forum could fall under 'social media' and owners of forums could be asked to pay if they want their traffic to make it to end users in a timely manner.

Then they're told that the terms of their hosting service prohibit them discussing such agreements under an NDA.

Literally all manner of extortion is possible. Will it happen today? No. Will it happen while we're all still upset about it? No. Wait a news cycle or two and watch it seep in silently.

 

Worse; the prior net neutrality regulations specifically prohibited federal government filtering of information, as is done in China and elsewhere. That is now gone, with zero plan to create any new prohibitions. We can now be told what we can and can’t learn/know/find out about.
It’ll happen slowly, and you literally won’t know when it’s happening.

We in the US apparently have extra freedoms we don’t need...

Can only hope this gets overturned in the legislature or the judiciary.

Unless TFP has way more streaming services than I’m aware of, this should do little to this site for now, but over time there is a high chance that there will be be pay-to-access ‘tiers’ that ISPs will sell to site owners/publishers. Depending on how much you pay, your product is accordingly streamlined to the end user. We do this in shipping, data lines, and travel too. It’s a proven model.

 

Things are introduced incrementally. It won’t come fast, and it won’t be expensive...now. Incrementalism is a real thing and had been used widely to introduce ideologies and economic changes over relatively short amounts of time with little notice or care by the general public.

 

Exactly, Jim.
And that’s why this isn’t really a political subject, as it’s not a ‘one side over the other’ issue, technically (though there are indications that support for/against this unlegislated ruling does not necessarily cross party lines).
This is a monopoly/capitolism/money issue, at its root.