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are you a paid troll? what good comes from selective throttling?

• Spivak 9y ago
  Just as an example, not getting shit internet speeds around 7:30 when everyone turns on Netflix.
  • jquery 9y ago
    I remember my former large apartment building’s internet slowing to a crawl everyday around this time.
  • imtringued 9y ago
    We need batteries for internet traffic the same way we need batteries for renewable energy...
• jquery 9y ago
  Please don’t call people shills on HN. That’s very rude. Selective throttling has worked great to make my t-mobile mobile data usage seamlessly switch between email, websites, and video on an “unlimited” plan. They even doe sample my videos to 480p to save bandwidth unless I vpn. So there’s one non-trolly example of innovation that has made my life better that net neutrality would prevent. I do not buy the doomsday scenarios. We started with AOL internet and moved to a freer internet over time, all without net neutrality.
  • cat199 9y ago
    > We started with AOL internet and moved to a freer internet over time, all without net neutrality. no, we started with 'the real internet' and then AOL showed up.
    • jquery 9y ago
      No true Scotsman. Before AOL we had Usenet with its own issues. AOL helped bring the internet to the masses.