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I think "Fast Lanes" is terrible, "Slow Lanes" is better, and "Toll Roads" is most accurate. The end of any pretense of net neutrality opens the doors for all

by rjbwork 13y ago

I think "Fast Lanes" is terrible, "Slow Lanes" is better, and "Toll Roads" is most accurate. The end of any pretense of net neutrality opens the doors for all manner of censorship, or more likely, extortion. "Sure is a mighty nice website you got there, be a shame if our 50 million subscribers couldn't access it...."

mnutt 13y ago
Worse than that, it may be that large websites just pay it since they benefit from the barriers to entry it creates for smaller websites. When your ISP has a deal that makes Facebook and Twitter free but all other websites have very strictly metered bandwidth caps, how much will that change your browsing habits?
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tzs 13y ago
> "Sure is a mighty nice website you got there, be a shame if our 50 million subscribers couldn't access it...." The FCC explicitly said that kind of thing would not be allowed under their proposed regulatory plans. Do you have a reason to believe otherwise?
- rjbwork 13y ago
  Netflix is essentially unwatchable for many comcast subscribers due to high congestion during peak hours. If the peering connections are sufficiently overloaded/congested, there isn't too much appreciable difference. On the other hand, give an inch, give a mile. The ISPs want toll roads, and if they get the ability to charge other peering services and content providers to carry their traffic over non-congested pipes, I don't see why they won't get toll roads from some other patsy they buy off later.
bostik 13y ago
> "Sure is a mighty nice website you got there, be a shame if our 50 million subscribers couldn't access it...." I thought there was an explicit term to describe that. Protection racket. In memory of the term "information superhighway", I wonder if it would also make sense to label the slow lane as information highway robbery?

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I think "Fast Lanes" is terrible, "Slow Lanes" is better, and "Toll Roads" is most accurate. The end of any pretense of net neutrality opens the doors for all

by rjbwork 13y ago

mnutt 13y ago
Worse than that, it may be that large websites just pay it since they benefit from the barriers to entry it creates for smaller websites. When your ISP has a deal that makes Facebook and Twitter free but all other websites have very strictly metered bandwidth caps, how much will that change your browsing habits?
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tzs 13y ago
> "Sure is a mighty nice website you got there, be a shame if our 50 million subscribers couldn't access it...." The FCC explicitly said that kind of thing would not be allowed under their proposed regulatory plans. Do you have a reason to believe otherwise?
- rjbwork 13y ago
  Netflix is essentially unwatchable for many comcast subscribers due to high congestion during peak hours. If the peering connections are sufficiently overloaded/congested, there isn't too much appreciable difference. On the other hand, give an inch, give a mile. The ISPs want toll roads, and if they get the ability to charge other peering services and content providers to carry their traffic over non-congested pipes, I don't see why they won't get toll roads from some other patsy they buy off later.
bostik 13y ago
> "Sure is a mighty nice website you got there, be a shame if our 50 million subscribers couldn't access it...." I thought there was an explicit term to describe that. Protection racket. In memory of the term "information superhighway", I wonder if it would also make sense to label the slow lane as information highway robbery?