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I am agnostic on net neutrality (ie. neither for nor against, just admitting my own lack of ability to assess its fallout). I read a lot of sweeping, but hard

I am agnostic on net neutrality (ie. neither for nor against, just admitting my own lack of ability to assess its fallout). I read a lot of sweeping, but hard to measure claims on its affects (such as in the linked article). Are there any concrete, measurable affects that anyone is willing to predict? Examples might be: * Average load times for the 1000 most popular webpages will decrease. * There will be fewer internet startups over the next 5 years than the previous. Edit: formatting

chillacy 9y ago
To that end, I'm curious how the internet works in countries without net neutrality protections: https://www.thisisnetneutrality.org/ https://www.thisisnetneutrality.org/ I know in china there are a handful of telecom companies with absolutely terrible peering between each other, so that companies have to buy CDN services which have points of presence in all the carriers. But that may or may not be an effect of their lack of net neutrality policy, since there's so much else going on there.
J5892 9y ago
Your examples are actually pretty spot on. > * Average load times for the 1000 most popular webpages will decrease. Absolutely possible if companies in the top 1000 pay for priority over other companies in the top 1000. Also possible if an ISP decides to make their own version of a top 1000 site, and throttles its competitors. > * There will be fewer internet startups over the next 5 years than the previous. When ISPs create an artificial barrier to entry such as paid prioritization, costs to start a business and become profitable will increase, which will absolutely reduce the amount of new startups.