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>China does not have net neutrality. Almost everything coming into the country from outside is utterly filtered to hell and back. The UK does have net neutrali
by kurtisc 9y ago
>China does not have net neutrality. Almost everything coming into the country from outside is utterly filtered to hell and back.
The UK does have net neutrality. The UK internet is still loosely censored. I understand that a monopoly might mean a non-neutral net could be privately censored, and therefore functionally similar, but this is a distinct issue from state censorship.
- zimpenfish 9y ago> The UK does have net neutrality. Do we have any protection of that? As best I know (which isn't much), UK net neutrality is more along the lines of a polite understanding than anything enshrined in law. (And it seems to be wobbling - cf. Three now offering you free data for Netflix/Spotify streaming, etc.)
- martiuk 9y agoWe don't need to have it enshrined in law as right now little to no ISPs outright prevent access to popular services but as you said zero-rating is slowly creeping in. Until an ISP starts preventing universal access nothing needs to be done, zero-rating (while bad for competition) does not do that. A good question would be why aren't the competition petitioning the government to outright ban zero-rating? Current EU law has zero-rating loopholes, it'd be up to a post-brexit government to close them. Perhaps it's not popular with current ISPs and their customers? I don't think a large survey on net neutrality has been done in the UK.