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It'll affect my access to everything if it pushes our phone/net/cable bundle out of affordability. My household has to get by on about $1500 a month, of which a whopping $375 is mine to spend (which includes making payments on the $1200 I still owe my dentist). The news articles I read from around the world talked about things like individual websites having to pay 30% of their revenue to their carriers above and beyond what they may already be paying--and that includes sites like Netflix, Twitter, Ebay, Etsy, Facebook...all of 'em. You can bet those costs will be passed to consumers pretty much instantly. They're also talking about making it legal for a carrier, such as AT&T, to completely refuse its customers access to sites owned by competing carriers. It's going to be a messy, expensive disaster that will leave many thousands of individuals, organizations, and underfunded schools & states out in the cold, unable to afford to log on for anything.
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