Burger King — a fast-food chain that sells cheap beef — apparently understands net neutrality more than the average member of Congress. The company released an ad today explaining the concept of net neutrality with a stunt that showed what it would be like to have paid prioritization in a burger joint. In the ad, actors playing Burger King employees taunt “actual guests” by making them wait for absurd amounts of time to receive their food — unless they pay huge tolls to get it quickly.

Most of the popular net neutrality discussion in the past year has been reduced to this idea of “fast and slow lanes,” which refers to deliberate throttling of internet content. That’s the extreme scenario, and ISPs haven’t ruled it out. ISPs aren’t…

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