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President obama about something called net neutrality. let's translate that into english. for help explaining those rules which block internet providers from favoring some services more than others. here's nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: the best way to understand net neutrality is to think of the internet as a congested superhighway with most of the fast lanes taken up by big fat trucks carrying content like amazon, netflix and hulu. in 2015, the obama administration ruled those big companies cannot pay to dominate the fast lanes. high speed internet, it said, is a public utility and everyon...

Us break this down. let's start with what the current fcc chairman told joe ling kent about this decision. listen. >> consumers benefit, entrepreneurs benefit, nerve the internet economy is better off with the market-based approach. >> but some small businesses have come out and told us that they're very concerned about what net neutrality and the lack of it will do to their small businesses. are they wrong? >> i think in their case their concerns are misplaced for a couple different reasons. before 2015 we had a free and open internet in which very small companies became global giants, facebo...

>> now consumer advocates warn getting rid of net neutrality regulations will only hurt consumers by allowing isps to throttle internet speeds for some web sites, even allowing them to block customer abstoesz competitors' web sites. for example, hay how wi allowin speeds for netflix but slowing speeds for your child's online music lesson or your college lectures. >> without these regulations, one web site could make sure that their content is reaching consumers faster than others which would result in less choice for the consumers. >> reporter: but the nation's icps including comcast, insist t...