Will some US users have to wait minutes for a website to load now that Net Neutrality is Dead?

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Unfortunately, I feel ISP will intentionally slow down internet traffic to where the loading time for a basic website is many minutes, If the website is a competing website which the ISP don't own or have an unfavorable opinion on ISP, the website may take even longer to load.

ISP may make a bunch of quickly built websites on different topics like health, electronics, pets, plants, and services like online shopping, online video and e-mail to also make money from selling ads on their own websites or subscribe to their website sort of like paid dating websites where you need to pay to use the site.

ISP may ask users to pay for faster speeds, so they can use popular websites like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Google Search. But, there maybe no option to pay for faster speeds when viewing less popular sites, or the option is more expensive because fewer people will subscribe to it.

The ISP who does not follow Net Neutrality may also raise the price of basic broadband like cable and dsl internet where most people with average paying jobs like a cashier, or bank teller can't afford broadband, so they needs to subscribe dial-up internet which may also become more expensive, and slower.
 
Net neutrality isn't dead, the people voting to take it down have cleared a hurdle to do so but haven't won. To make it final will take months and most likely a few more months before ISP start to do anything.

But to the topic, yes. This is the main fear of killing NN though I really don't see it happening.
 
Hopefully, the internet won't ever have very slow lanes won't be super slow where users have to wait hours to load a simple website or online video, so more users will upgrade to the more expensive fast lanes for a website if Net Neutrality ends.

I feel some people will protest on the street if the internet slow lane are super slow where the site is basically blocked because it loads so slow until users pay a lot more money to speed it up.
 
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