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I don't think that NN legislation is the answer. It's a social solution to a technical problem. We shouldn't be making it illegal to discriminate between traffi
by SAI_Peregrinus 10y ago
I don't think that NN legislation is the answer. It's a social solution to a technical problem. We shouldn't be making it illegal to discriminate between traffic types, we should be making it impossible. Encrypt everything by default, encrypt and anonymize DNS, and generally get rid of the ability for ISPs to tell one data stream from another. Unfortunately this requires re-architecting quite a lot of the Internet, so it's even less likely to happen quickly than getting a bunch of politicians to stop listening to lobbyists or ISPs to actually compete with one another.
- nebulous1 10y agoI don't think that will solve the problem. Even if the ISP can't tell where most of your traffic is going after it leaves their network, they're still going to be able to be able to differentiate between that traffic and traffic destined for a service they control or a third party service that cooperates with them. It stops them from penalising a particular third party service, but not from penalising everything they don't recognise in favour of what they do.