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The water company was just one example of a utility that's mandated by law to provide impartial service to its customers. Perhaps a more relevant parallel can
by kfnws 3y ago
The water company was just one example of a utility that's mandated by law to provide impartial service to its customers.
Perhaps a more relevant parallel can be found in telephone companies. Every day, people call each other and have the most unsavoury and obnoxious conversations, at least by other people's standards, and they can't get their service cut off for doing so. Even if others are listening in and happen to be offended.
- greyface- 3y agoILEC telco service mandates are due to the regional monopolies that tend to form around them. IP transit providers are not in a similar situation; you can typically find several of them competing for your business in any carrier-neutral datacenter. The Washington net neutrality law being referenced in relation to the AGO complaint was developed in the context of residential Internet service and applies only to broadband providers, which is a term defined in the law, and which Hurricane and most other IP transit providers do not qualify as.
- kfnws 3y agoThat's very interesting. Do you think there may be a chance the AGO would interpret these definitions more broadly, or is this attempt by 1776 Hosting and their upstream providers to have this law invoked against HE just entirely futile?
- greyface- 3y agoIn my opinion, it's entirely futile. I don't know why stephenr's sibling comment was flagged; I think he suggests the best remedy available to you at this time.
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