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Strawman argument. If I break the law, charge me. Otherwise you have no business second-guessing what I transfer over the line I pay for. If they don't want pe
by lutorm 17y ago
Strawman argument. If I break the law, charge me. Otherwise you have no business second-guessing what I transfer over the line I pay for.
If they don't want people to use the bandwith they pay to get, they should say so by advertising their monthly cap or whatever.
The idea that I can only transfer the particular types of bits across the wire that my ISP thinks I should is exactly the point of net neutrality rules. If that's not an infringement of free speech, I don't know what is.
- fnid2 17y agoIn many cases, you are breaking your contract with the ISP. Read almost any residential contract and it says the subscriber agrees not to run servers for example. My ISP in california even blocked port 80 upstream. Limiting the ability to share movies online is not an infringement of free speech.
- lutorm 17y agoIt could be argued such contracts violate net neutrality. I'm pretty sure the telcos don't have enough lines for everyone to place a call at the same time. Are you also going to argue that running a call center should be prohibited, too, because you are excessively using shared resources?