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> should making a deal with an ISP be the marketplace in which content providers compete That's a business issue, not a packet delivery issue. I guess I don'

> should making a deal with an ISP be the marketplace in which content providers compete That's a business issue, not a packet delivery issue. I guess I don't see how this threatens net neutrality as long as the business deal does not degrade the experience of ISP customers who choose not to participate, and does not give preferential treatment to that content provider's packets. > The conflict of interest that Net Neutrality is concerned with... And that conflict is specifically one in which connectivity with non-preferred providers is degraded and/or connectivity with preferred providers is given preferential treatment. That becoming such a "preferred" content provider also involves a business deal does not necessarily mean any business deal between an ISP and a content provider impinges upon net neutrality.

kpcyrd 10y ago
But they are. You're using $randomStartup until you reach your data cap of (let's say) 2GB/month, after that your bandwidth gets (actively) throttled to 64kb/s and becomes virtually unusable. Usually this is normal because this happens for every website (ie "my internet is reduced"), but now imagine there's an elite of the major sites and services and users get used to that. How are you going to compete in a market where everybody else has zero rated traffic to their customers but you don't? For them everything else appears to be of low quality and broken. (ie "this service doesn't work right").