Sounds like a disincentive to publish to me. Remember when all bandwidth was synchronous in the USA. The telecoms were indifferent to which direction the packet

Sounds like a disincentive to publish to me. Remember when all bandwidth was synchronous in the USA. The telecoms were indifferent to which direction the packets went. The cable companies either through technical limitations were the first to offer asynchronous bandwidth as a product to the masses. Cables companies distribute content and the business model relies on scarcity of access to the content. Their content evolved to leverage centralized advertising model and scarcity of access to content. This was completely different in the USA during the T1, ISDN, and eventually SDSL. I always associate the xDSL with the eternal September of the web and it's content. How one classifies a conspiracy is actually a whole different topic. I would call this more market manipulation.