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When you frame net neutrality as "users pay the same for all network traffic" people love it and when you frame it as "Facebook cannot subsidize your mobile dat
by bandrami 4y ago
When you frame net neutrality as "users pay the same for all network traffic" people love it and when you frame it as "Facebook cannot subsidize your mobile data usage on Facebook" people hate it even though those mean the exact same thing.
- geraldhh 4y agobecause it's not the same thing when users pay the same for all types of traffic, except facebook
- bandrami 4y agoWhat started the whole net neutrality discussion in the late oughts was Netflix wanting to run its own fiber to Comcast so Comcast users wouldn't have to pay for data used watching Netflix. That's what this has been about: companies that want eyeballs subsidizing those eyeballs' data when using their services.
- geraldhh 4y agoyea, and next thing carriers want 'subsidizing' from every content provider and internet (as tech ppl know it) is relegated to an unmaintained dirt road.