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I get that, but what happens when the big ISPs decide to moderate content? They're private businesses too... Isn't that what started the movement for Net Neut

by Natsu 7y ago

I get that, but what happens when the big ISPs decide to moderate content? They're private businesses too... Isn't that what started the movement for Net Neutrality in the first place? They were going to start charging us to provide YouTube, etc. I agree that this is a bad legal argument, but I do think there's an underlying issue, even if it's not an issue with YouTube itself. Granted, the best way to deal with that might be to attach some sort of neutrality provisions to the various contracts they have to agree to in order to lay fiber, get spectrum, etc. rather than deciding what websites can and can't do.

belltaco 7y ago
I believe ISPs are common carriers, so a different set of laws apply to them. Net Neutrality had to nothing to do with partisan content, it was about charging senders of the data extra, based on the type of bits, e.g video content.
- Natsu 7y ago
  As long as they can charge senders of data, surely they can do so in a partisan way? I would agree that they shouldn't, but I don't know if I can say that they won't.