fat_pikachu

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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
> No carve-outs were made for zero rating. Carve outs were made in various countries with Net Neutrality. > Under Obama's FCC the practice was under investigation. Which just goes to show that the practice isn't explicitly b
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Let's rephrase it then. The topic of zero rating is a studied one where people have found advantages and disadvantages, which is why carve-outs were made for it in the first place.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
That's somewhat up for debate.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Judging from the article, he built the network over the course of four years, presumably without paying himself. Even if you think a major ISP could shave a year off this timeline, it would be a much larger investment than 200K.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Lots of countries with NN regulations allow zero rating e.g. look at the EU.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Do you think we'd see a flurry of executive action this month on China policy in the alternate universe where Trump has a second term. > What is the play with Biden and China? There's nothing underhanded going on between Biden
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
They wouldn't be rushing out these executive orders now if there was any faith the Biden administration would implement them given the chance.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Because the Biden administration won't do it if given the choice.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Speaking as someone who use to work for R&D within the industry (in the resource allocation space), the OIO (the name for the FCC's implementation of net neutrality) injected a significant amount of regulatory uncertainty into our
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
You don't recall correctly. Netflix and Verizon got into a peering dispute, but that's hardly throttling.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
That's Portugal, a country with Net Neutrality.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Here's hoping that this will lead to better (properly anonymized) public health datasets. Open data has provided tremendous value in recent years, not just for transparency and civic engagement, but for innovation and progress. The fa