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They don't need to. They just need to neglect their peer infrastructure and the desired effect will be the same.

• mseebach 12y ago
  Net neutrality doesn't require ISPs to maintain their infrastructure to any particular standard. It's fine that it's crap as long as it's equally crap for all traffic.
  • sp332 12y ago
    If you neglect peering, gradually some peering points will become more congested than others. So it won't be equally crap for all traffic. Some sources will get crappier service than others.
    • mseebach 12y ago
      Of course. There's just no language in any net neutrality proposals that will avoid that. The net neutrality crime in the Netflix debacle was trying to charge Netflix for access, not refusing to upgrade the peering point (since all traffic is equally/neutrally affected by the congestion).