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But net neutrality doesn't necessarily conflict with managing basic categories of traffic to keep a system functioning so I don't see how the the one person tor
by jahnu 12y ago
But net neutrality doesn't necessarily conflict with managing basic categories of traffic to keep a system functioning so I don't see how the the one person torrenting on a contended line matters. You use traffic management to limit their bandwidth use, not their choice of protocol or their choice of destination or source. Then the customer can switch to a competitor or stay but we can rest assured that these management techniques won't result in incumbents preventing competition or free speech.
- KaiserPro 12y agoFirst, there is no such thing as free speech in the EU. Especially not in the UK Second of all net neutrality is not about freedom of speech. It is a concerted campaign by Google, netflix, yahoo and amazon to keep costs low. There is a very real threat that people like verison will charge real money to peer with the above companies. This is a direct threat to their business model. The reason why its not an issue here is that all ISPs in the UK peer at coop exchanges. The concept of charging $17 million dollars to peer just doesn't apply. ISPs over here wanted to ban torrenting, as 1% of the userbase started racking up 80% of the bandwidth costs. However as ISPs introduced caps and blocks, other popped up offering light traffic shaping instead, or bandwidth caps. The market forces won.