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In the typical sense of net neutrality[0], not very much - you're effectively bidding for a faster / lower-latency route across the internet.

You can already pay for faster routes with e.g. Google's premium networking or Cloudflare's Argo. If I understand correctly, this offering just means that instead of having to procure your network in advance and lock in a particular price for all traffic, you can dynamically route traffic based on the cost of doing so.

[0] Wikipedia's definition: "Network neutrality, or simply net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, and not discriminate or charge differently based on user, content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, or method of communication."



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