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People who support net neutrality believe that if private corporations are allowed to bill packets based on destination/origin/content instead of treating them
by abdullahkhalids 8y ago
People who support net neutrality believe that if private corporations are allowed to bill packets based on destination/origin/content instead of treating them all equally, society would be worse off. Here is a prime example of a corporation being extremely petty in a emergency situation when possibly lives are at risk. To quote:
'Verizon's throttling has everything to do with net neutrality -- it shows that the ISPs will act in their economic interests, even at the expense of public safety," County Counsel James Williams said on behalf of the county and fire department.'
How then will a corporation act when the stakes are even lower? Act in public interest or profit seeking?
- orangecat 8y agoVerizon's throttling has everything to do with net neutrality And that's just wrong. Verizon throttled the fire department after they hit the specified bandwidth limit, without regard to the content of the traffic. The people who are mad at Verizon are claiming that they should have treated the traffic differently because it was more important, which is exactly the opposite of net neutrality.
- BigTex420 8y agoThere isn't (read: shouldn't be) a bandwidth limit on unlimited plans, which the fire department had
- ComputerGuru 8y agoSure, but global bandwidth limits have nothing to do with net neutrality.
- pleaseread 8y agoWhat you're saying isn't wrong. Applied to that snippet of the qoute though is wrong. At least semantically it makes it appear as if you read half of a qoute, reacted, and formed your reply based on that reaction.