Besides let's be honest, 90% of the useful and interesting internet sites, companies, innovation originate in the US(from my personal experience). If it changes, that's bad for everyone.
It will affect startups as well. If you're interested in building an online business based in US, you don't want your site to get throttled.
We differ on gun control, social security, health insurance, representative democracy, a plethora of other subjects and soon, net neutrality.
> If it changes, it’s bad for everyone.
For a moment. But then it’s just bad for the US and great for the EU.
> If you’re interested in building an online business based in US, you don’t want your site to get throttled.
Exactly. Come to the EU, everyone :-). Seriously though, this the-US-is-the-world attitude is much seen and never warranted.
i have seen a lot of stuff about the proposed FCC changes but every time someone asks about how this will effect non-US internet users the reply is always "because the USA is the best and your government will copy us"
Don't get me wrong i competently agree with the need for net neutrality, ISP's should not be allowed to throttle or dictate which data you can access or at what speed. I just want to understand the issue better and how it effects the global internet community.
I also don't think we should limit action to just the US region, if a website wants to protest let them do it for everyone to see, it might help when the fight starts in what ever country is next (apparently) but they do risk alienating global consumers who frankly don't care about US politics.
BBC, Al-Jazeera, any kind of non-USA news site should be terrified of losing US business. They will be an obvious choice to not include in "default" bundles.
Any non-US video or music startup (imagine one competing with Netflix) will have no chance of getting off the ground in the USA, one of the biggest potential markets in the world.
More nebulous, but a bunch of startups in the USA that would have otherwise succeeded and brought innovation or service to other countries, will not be squashed a fail.