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> All of the ISPs merged with media companies, instituted data caps, and then exempted their in house media from the data caps. All of them? From your link, lo
by parineum 6y ago
> All of the ISPs merged with media companies, instituted data caps, and then exempted their in house media from the data caps.
All of them? From your link, looks like it's ATT who did that.
Cox, my ISP, instituted a data cap before the repeal. Furthermore, data caps have zero to do with net neutrality. Preferential billing and routing based on source or destination is certainly more possible with a data cap but data caps are net neutral by themselves. Data caps are cancer but they aren't going anywhere unless there's competition. Competition may also make net neutrality, as a political issue, obsolete.
Net neutrality seems like a red herring to keep the telecom regulatory capture off the front page.
- kevincox 6y agoThe data cap isn't the issue. The issue is excluding some services (especially their own). This is basically a monopolization move.