What was wrong with the internet before NN was put in place? Answer: Nothing Second Answer: We don't need government involved.
Keep the control freaks off the internet. It was fine pre-2015 without the Federal Government trying to stick their nose in the net and it will be fine now.
People and companies resolved things themselves without authoritarian fascist type policies requiring it.
The internet was fine before the Net Neutrality act. You'll most-likely notice no difference in internet usage. This also creates a more free and open market.
Man, 3 in a row, the pro-telecom trolls are out in force...
Let's actually walk through this, shall we?
While the current net neutrality *rules* were new, coming in 2015, they were a direct response to companies starting to abuse their power and had a lot of lead-up.
Before that point Net Neutrality, and generally treating traffic the same regardless of source and destination for common carriers, was the default standard. This has been true for *decades*. Internet access, initially, wasn't legally treated under common carrier laws the same way but in practice companies typically adhered to common carrier style data transit.
In the early aughts we started seeing some abuse of that, and the FCC pushed back a bit (for example
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/03/25/AR2005032501328.html ), but didnt do so comprehensively.
By 2007 a number of regulatory changes had made it easier for telcos to abuse their "on ramp" controls, and the consolidation of telco and media companies gave them more incentive to, which is when you got Comcast's infamous Bittorrent blocking which led to the 2008 FCC decision on comcast, overturned 2 years later because of how the FCC had classified internet providers and in turn led to a new set of rules from the at the end of 2010 to fix part of that, though since they still hadn't reclassified the providers a lot of that was in turn struck down in 2014.
Now we get to 2015, where the FCC, after a lot of political wrangling in congress that went nowhere, reclassified the providers as common carriers, and applied net neutrality.
tl;dr net neutrality is how the internet and telecoms have generally worked, you havent ever lived in a time when the internet was prevalent and net neutrality functionally wasn't, none of us have, and to claim otherwise because the current rules were finalized only 3 years ago is misleading at best and outright lying at worst.
(also, it should be noted, Berners-Lee, the "father of the internet, has a lot to say on making sure Net Neutrality stays too, like
http://www.newsweek.com/net-neutrality-ajit-pai-fcc-code-red-world-wide-web-founder-917895 and
https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/885100007749287936?lang=en )
The thing is with the larger and larger sub middle class group, the populist message should be a grand slam in these Red States. Unfortunately, it’s things like civil rights, and other tradional Republican wedge issues that turns a lot of these people off and makes them vote against their own best interests. I won’t say how much I think IQ plays into some of this.