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> But I don't see this as an attack on Net Neutrality, you're just charged differently for what you use. Nobody will stop you using Facebook when you have a Mus
by jimktrains2 9y ago
> But I don't see this as an attack on Net Neutrality, you're just charged differently for what you use. Nobody will stop you using Facebook when you have a Music subscription, nothing is throttled.
Doesn't the OP show that you need to have the social media subscription to use facebook, implying it'd be blocked otherwise?
EDIT: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/16691506/portugal-meo-internet-packages-net-neutrality-ajit-pai-plan https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/16691506/portugal-meo-in...
> But based on Meo’s website, this doesn’t look like buying cable channels for the internet. It’s an add-on to general-purpose mobile subscriptions, which let you access any service — including the ones above. The idea is apparently that if you’re into apps like Snapchat and Facebook (or... LinkedIn, I guess), you pay around $8 a month to specifically get more “Social” data, so you can use your regular allotment for everything else. It looks a lot like the “Vodafone Pass” service in the UK, where subscribers can pay for unlimited access to a similar stable of services.
This still seems awkward. I still don't understand why the endpoint being connected to matters at all. It's all data going over your lines. Essentially you're paying to "0-rate" a service, which just seems silly.
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Also, one of the main issues with not-net-neutrality is exactly this. If I make a slightly better social network, but it's not "0-rated" it's likely that people won't use it because it'll count against their quota. That's a problem.
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- Aaargh20318 9y ago> you pay around $8 a month to specifically get more “Social” data, so you can use your regular allotment for everything else The problem with this is that this creates an incentive for the operator to lower the regular allotment so they can sell more of these packages. > I still don't understand why the endpoint being connected to matters at all. It doesn't matter, it's just a way of extracting more money from customers.
- jimktrains2 9y ago>>> you pay around $8 a month to specifically get more “Social” data, so you can use your regular allotment for everything else > The problem with this is that this creates an incentive for the operator to lower the regular allotment so they can sell more of these packages. The quote is from the linked article explaining the situation. I think 0-rating is a terrible idea for the reasons you said, among others.