Net neutrality means your internet provider can't block a website, slow it down, or charge companies extra to load faster than everyone else. Without it, your provider decides what you can see and say online, making this a free speech issue.

It's not federal law right now. Courts took away the FCC's power to make this rule on its own, so only Congress can fix it now.

Past bills tried to fix this by reclassifying broadband under Title II, a 1930s telephone-monopoly framework that brings rate-setting and other baggage that has nothing to do with blocking or throttling. That gave opponents an opening to call it government overreach, and the bills died on party-line votes. A law that bans blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization directly, without the outdated baggage, is a different bill.

Right now providers can legally block sites or sell fast lanes. Five states passed their own laws to stop it. Michigan isn't one of them.

As Senator, Lydia will:

• Introduce federal legislation banning blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization directly
• Apply it to mobile internet too, not just home broadband
• Give people a real way to enforce it, so it doesn't depend on whoever runs the FCC