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Nobody on "the left" has ever argued that companies can't have a terms of service that prohibits bad behavior. Net neutrality has always been about preventing
by amyjess 8y ago
Nobody on "the left" has ever argued that companies can't have a terms of service that prohibits bad behavior.
Net neutrality has always been about preventing the companies that control the last mile for consumers from extorting additional money from server operators that are already paying their own ISP for bandwidth.
- drak0n1c 8y agoNot quite nobody. There were arguments that without Net Neutrality ISPs may develop TOS that target certain data/content services with paywalls, throttles, or blocks - to the point where politically motivated censorship would be a big concern. This censorship argument played a core part in the Net Neutrality campaign. Note the specific reference to censorship being the biggest problem in the headlines and leading paragraphs of the following popular articles: 1) https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ending-net-neutrality-will-destroy-everything-makes-internet-great-ncna823301 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ending-net-neutrality-... 2) https://qz.com/1158328/what-will-happen-now-that-net-neutrality-is-gone-we-asked-the-experts/ https://qz.com/1158328/what-will-happen-now-that-net-neutral... 3) https://www.vox.com/2017/12/14/16774148/net-neutrality-repeal-explained https://www.vox.com/2017/12/14/16774148/net-neutrality-repea... 4) https://futurism.com/ny-attorney-general-fcc-net-neutrality/ https://futurism.com/ny-attorney-general-fcc-net-neutrality/