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"Anti-regulation" rhetoric against Net Neutrality is either sock puppetry or useful idiocy. A lot of it is just a misunderstanding of how the Internet works an
by orangecat 9y ago
"Anti-regulation" rhetoric against Net Neutrality is either sock puppetry or useful idiocy.
A lot of it is just a misunderstanding of how the Internet works and what net neutrality is. Many conservatives will give arguments like "you should be able to charge people more if they're watching Netflix all the time and using lots of bandwidth". Which is true, but to show why that's irrelevant to net neutrality you have to go into the details of routing and peering and you'll lose most people three sentences in. See the comments at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0iv4nmPz8A&lc=UgwIM85WNrVRvgTvLcV4AaABAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0iv4nmPz8A&lc=UgwIM85WNrVRv..., where a few conservatives who work in tech try to explain what's going on, without much success.