In the last few weeks all the attention of Internet users around the world in tied to the Internet Neutrality law that is being amended in USA. Even though most of the people don’t support the law and millions of American users are signing petitions against it, the law seems to pass all the levels of law-making process of US system. But it turns out, that those who don’t own American passport don’t really understand net neutrality as well as the hype and disagreement of people towards the law. Here’s the simple explanation for it.

Today, until neutrality is still ‘intact’ the biggest providers are obligated to distribute access fairly and evenly between all the resources. But if it is repealed, even though the regulation lacks public support, they will have to give preference in the speed and traffic to big internet conglomerates such as GOOGLE services, AMAZON, FACEBOOK and so on. That will, understandably, affect small and medium internet businesses.

The hardest hit will fall on those, who own a small internet shop and conduct their business through internet pages that are not very popular. That means that a lot of people behind the screens of small web pages will have to close their deal or try to go out to the market, which is more time and labor consuming and in this economy quite hard to do. Plus those, who will want to have faster Internet connection will have to pay much more for the speed than they are paying now.

It seems that this law is only about the United States and no one else, but experts and regular users tend to think that this law will affect the face of the world web everywhere as American users will have less possibilities to create original content – with restrictions and all – and that in it’s turn means that less of it will appear on the screens everywhere. Plus, there is no guarantee, that other countries will keep their Internet a free space for the users, seeing how the United States are trying to repeal net neutrality in order to please big companies.

For now, the law has been successfully passing through the law-making system, but it is yet to be approved by the Senate. Until then US Internet users can only hope that it won’t pass.