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Free Wikipedia in Africa and Middle East (first step against net neutrality?)
- jessriedel 15y agoIt's important to realize that net neutrality is only beneficial when there is poor competition amongst service providers. It's the oligopoly power of a handful of service providers which would make harmful preferential treatment sustainable. In a competitive market, the price for data will be driven toward the marginal cost, which is independent of the contents of the data. So net neutrality wouldn't be useful. (And, in fact, net neutrality has the disadvantage of possibly prohibiting companies from charging different prices for different latencies/reliability, which might be economically very sensible in a competitive market.) Therefore, it doesn't make sense to view net neutrality as some sort of axiomatic principle. If market realities necessitate net neutrality rules, it can be perfectly reasonable for there to be carved-out exceptions, e.g. for charity.
- gioele 15y agoHow will you feel when your competitor will be one of the freely accessible sites while your site is one of those for which your customers will have to pay data access?