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(Comcast in Philadelphia acquired NBC from GE in 2010; and a bunch of shows died, but not SNL. Comcast is an ISP and also owns NBC and this SNL. Tom Wheeler - w
by westurner 2y ago
(Comcast in Philadelphia acquired NBC from GE in 2010; and a bunch of shows died, but not SNL. Comcast is an ISP and also owns NBC and this SNL. Tom Wheeler - who got the 2015 Open Internet Rules passed - was an attorney for Comcast prior to the FCC post.
Pai was a Verizon lobbyist prior to the FCC post. Pai worked to cancel the "No blocking", "No throttling", and "No Paid Prioritization" rules that protected the Internet.)
There is no equal time if there is paid prioritization; to do paid prioritization the ISP prioritizes packets according to payola (which is already illegal in the music industry, for example).
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola :
> Payola, in the music industry, is the name given to the illegal practice of paying a commercial radio station to play a song without the station disclosing the payment
Are there disclosure rules for Paid Prioritization by ISPs? Are my school videos slower because adult sites just pay the man?