Net neutrality is very important to keep, and we're going down a path that will stifle innovation. I think a lot of the opposition to the concept comes from lack of understanding.
I use a telephone analogy: Let's say you want to order a pizza. Dominos and a new local Italian place are in the same neighborhood, and each has a phone line to take orders. You try to call the local joint, and you get an "all circuits are busy" message over and over again, and it takes you ten minutes to get through. (Or, more likely, you give up.) A call to Dominos gets through immediately.
How could that happen? Because the new President killed "Phone Neutrality," which treated all phone calls the same. Despite the fact that you paid your phone bill, and the local joint paid its phone bill, Dominos used its deep pockets to pay for priority access to the phone network, which the startup restaurant couldn't afford. It used those deep pockets to drive the local joint out of business, preventing new competition from ever getting off the ground.
This hypothetical scenario doesn't happen in the telephone world because of the Communications Act of 1934, which was later expanded to include the internet. But it
will be possible now that the new administration is reversing that. An innovation like Netflix could never get off the ground today, because your one-and-only high-speed internet provider would throttle its traffic in favor of their $6-per-movie On Demand service.
Think it can't happen? It
did happen, in 2014:
https://consumerist.com/2014/02/23/netflix-agrees-to-pay-comcast-to-end-slowdown/
Netflix had to pay off Comcast to make its service usable again, which it could only afford because the company had grown large enough. Nevermind that the end-users had
already paid for that bandwidth in their monthly internet bill -- now Comcast gets to beat the same money out of the other end of the connection, too, increasing its profits at
your expense. Netflix now costs 25% more than it did in 2014, while inflation over the same period was 3.4%.
This is the future without net neutrality in place. Popular web sites will be extorted by every large ISP, and you'll end up paying for it.