What the End of U.S. Net Neutrality Means For You

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  For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.

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  Earlier this month, net neutrality was back in the news, thanks to a U.S. appeals court ruling.

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  The decision stated that the Federal Communications Commission, or fcc,

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  didn't have the power to reinstate net neutrality rules,

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  which the agency voted to do in April with the encouragement of then President Joe Biden.

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  Now, I'll be honest,

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  net neutrality is one of those issues that I've just never quite bothered to fully wrap my head around.

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  So what is it and what will happen now that the FCC can't enforce it?

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  Here to explain everything for us is Ben Guarino,

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  an associate technology editor at Scientific American.

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  Ben, thanks for coming on to chat.

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  Thanks for having me.

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  This is a question I feel like I should be able to answer by now, but I can't.

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  What is net neutrality?

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  So, in the simplest terms,

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  net neutrality is this idea that all Internet traffic should be treated equally.

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  So if I am trying to access YouTube or Netflix or Hulu or really anything,

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  my Internet service provider, my isp,

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  is going to treat all of those data packets coming from those websites

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  like they'd be coming from any other website.

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