Small and mid-sized e-commerce businesses are likely to be hit hard by the United States Federal Communications Commission's repeal of Net neutrality earlier this month.  

The move will let Internet service providers block and manipulate Internet usage and discriminate against users at will, according to critics.  

"Net neutrality repeal helps mostly affiliated businesses and larger enterprises at the expense of smaller firms, startups, innovators and entrepreneurs," remarked Common Cause Special Advisor Michael Copps, a former FCC commissioner.  

"In e-commerce, I look for the bigger guys like Amazon and Google to dominate the market, along with ISP-affiliated businesses," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Smaller guys will have to enter into pay-and-play agreements to make any headway."