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It's not overrated. Comcast and Verizon were already caught drastically slowing down Netflix and Youtube the last time around, before the net neutrality rules p
by mtgx 9y ago
It's not overrated. Comcast and Verizon were already caught drastically slowing down Netflix and Youtube the last time around, before the net neutrality rules passed, until those companies "paid up".
Netflix and Youtube are probably safe from such actions now, but what about the much smaller services that try to compete with Youtube or Netflix, or podcast platforms, and so on?
Also this recently happened in Portugal, where technically there are some net neutrality rules now, but the current Commission canceled the previous Commission/Neelie Kroes' proposal to ban zero-rating. And since that meant they were allowed to do this sort of stuff, they went right ahead and did it:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNGlrABUIAAr9RO.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNGlrABUIAAr9RO.jpg:large
This is way more likely to happen in the U.S., where internet companies have local monopolies.
- Pilfer 9y ago>Comcast and Verizon were already caught drastically slowing down Netflix and Youtube Actually no, all three incidents you mentioned (Netflix being slow on Comcast, Netflix being slow on Verizon, Youtube being slow on Comcast) were caused by peering issues. These are not net neutrality issues, contrary to Netflix's massive PR campaign to convince you otherwise. The actual issue was Netflix opted not to peer with Comcast/Verizon, and instead funneled all their traffic through Cogent and Level 3.
- cwyers 9y agoAnd Netflix refused to do peering the way everyone else has done peering on the Internet because they wanted to pressure ISPs into installing and maintaining OpenConnect boxes on their own dime. Netflix has been an incredibly poor actor in this whole saga.
- 0xfeba 9y agoThat image is from a cell data provider, for paying a monthly fee for zero-rating those specific services. Not quite the same.