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I remember a pretty ridiculous image going around that depicted a hypothetical Internet service package that was sold to you on a site by site basis, for instan

I remember a pretty ridiculous image going around that depicted a hypothetical Internet service package that was sold to you on a site by site basis, for instance you would pay $20 a month and have access to the top 100, another $10 for social media, and so forth. Given the length of time the Internet has been around, and a complete absence of any of these doom and gloom stories coming to pass despite no such regulation the entire time, I am forced to conclude that neutrality advocates' fears were overblown.

imtringued 5y ago
Yes, you aren't allowed to resist. Embrace the corporate death grip.
vel0city 5y ago
But those images did briefly become reality to some customers. T-Mobile and AT&T had services which would be cheaper to access than other competing services. On AT&T, watching TV on DirecTV Now was zero-rated against mobile data caps. Watching TV on Hulu or Fubo or any other provider was an extra cost. On T-Mobile, streaming music on Spotify or Apple Music was zero-rated against mobile data caps. Streaming from home or from any non-approved music services was an extra cost. That doom and gloom image was starting to take shape. It was the passage of California's NN laws and the support in the courts which killed these programs, as they didn't want to have to manage a different set of rules in CA or any other states which implemented these kinds of rules compared to just having a standardized nation-wide platform.