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I usually like Ben Thompson's writing, but this article felt so off to me. The basic premise - that enforcing net neutrality will be a trade-off or "burden" on
by paxy 9y ago
I usually like Ben Thompson's writing, but this article felt so off to me. The basic premise - that enforcing net neutrality will be a trade-off or "burden" on par with onerous safety regulations - is completely flawed. ISPs have to do exactly what they've been doing for decades - nothing. Just leave packets alone and pass them along.
- Feniks 9y agoI don't think American ISPs WANT to be dumb pipes though.
- theptip 9y agoI think the point he's making is that 1) by taking certain options off the table (e.g. metered pricing), you are removing the ability of new entrants or other challengers to come compete with a new pricing model (as T-Mobile did in the case he highlights in the article), and 2) the stakes are really high; if the regulations are even slightly negative, multiplied across the entire digital economy of the world, getting this wrong could have a major impact. > ISPs have to do exactly what they've been doing for decades - nothing. Just leave packets alone and pass them along. Well, do nothing except for invest billions of dollars in building out new and faster networks to keep up with ever-increasing customer demand for data.