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Is it? I've never heard of net neutrality being applied to web standards - only carriers and usage pricing/prioritization. To me, this sounds like antitrust, n
by k_sh 8y ago
Is it? I've never heard of net neutrality being applied to web standards - only carriers and usage pricing/prioritization.
To me, this sounds like antitrust, not net neutrality.
- tzakrajs 8y agoAMP exists, primarily, because content publishers cannot afford to have the points of presence that Google has (e.g. Google Global Cache, Google Data Centers). The residential ISP oligopoly makes it so that only big players (e.g. Netflix, Google) who can peer directly with the ISPs get sufficient bandwidth to compete at a reasonable price. Everyone else gets to pay the premium to the middlemen (e.g. Akamai, Level 3) or bend the knee to Google for their market access via AMP. Publishers also must be competitive on the biggest search engine in town and the enhanced page ranking of AMP articles probably forces the issue for most.