Net Neutrality is losing the war

[BankItDrew]

What are the chances of us not being able to to FTR or PokerStars due to this bullshit?

[wufwugy]

What are the chances of us not being able to to FTR or PokerStars due to this bullshit?

Extremely low. It's a hypothetical possibility based on an absence of neutrality, but I would be surprised if things happened so bad so fast that this came to pass.

However, without neutrality, the web will gradually discourage and eliminate entrepreneurs like FTR and 'unregistered' sites like PS.

In the real world of zero neutrality I suspect that sites like FTR will be packaged and grandfathered in by content providers (like google), and poker sites (assuming it's explicitly legal) would 'pay dues' to the ISPs. Or something like that. One big change will be that new content and new ideas will basically be run by the primary providers. So when poker was huge and X and co made FTR they wouldn't have been successful because they weren't in bed with corporate giants that favor their own content and own talent. All google would have to do is run their own poker site/forum then bribe ISPs to favor their content then lo n behold no poker content other than google's exists.