Net Neutrality

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T_Minus

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Does this only affect consumer ISP not enterprise or small business (like comcast business)?

Will this have an affect on datacenter rates, options, etc... too?
 

Son of Homer

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My guess is that it has possible vast widespread implications. In theory, an ISP could throttle or eliminate traffic to a website, or otherwise prefer traffic to its own properties. It can also zero rate a preferred site, possible for money from that site. I heard that T-Mobile had a program that exempted certain sites from counting against the consumer data limit.
 

Rand__

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Think Quality of service for money - what do you think will happen?:)
 

Son of Homer

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From Wikipedia:
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.[1] For instance, under these principles, internet service providers are unable to intentionally block, slow down or charge money for specific websites and online content.

The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.[2][3][4][5]

A widely cited example of a violation of net neutrality principles was the Internet service provider Comcast's secret slowing ("throttling") of uploads from peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) applications by using forged packets.[6] Comcast did not stop blocking these protocols, like BitTorrent, until the FCC ordered them to stop.[7] In another minor example, The Madison River Communications company was fined US$15,000 by the FCC, in 2004, for restricting their customers' access to Vonage, which was rivaling their own services.[8] AT&T was also caught limiting access to FaceTime, so only those users who paid for AT&T's new shared data plans could access the application.[9] In July 2017, Verizon Wireless was accused of throttling after users noticed that videos played on Netflix and Youtube were slower than usual, though Verizon commented that it was conducting "network testing" and that net neutrality rules permit "reasonable network management practices".[10]

Research suggests that a combination of policy instruments will help realize the range of valued political and economic objectives central to the network neutrality debate.[11] Combined with strong public opinion, this has led some governments to regulate broadband Internet services as a public utility, similar to the way electricity, gas, and the water supply are regulated, along with limiting providers and regulating the options those providers can offer.[12]

My take:
The death of net neutrality allows the ISP to extort a ransom from a website, or risk having traffic from the ISP's customers to the website blocked. The big sites, like Netflix, can afford to pay the ransom, but the end result is that the next Netflix faces an insurmountable barrier to entry. Fairness implies that the ISP charge its customer for the traffic going to the customer, not the non-customer website. It gets very messy when the ISP also has content sites and blocks or throttles access to competitors.
 

pricklypunter

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Another nail in the coffin of freedom, slowly transitioning to state and corporate run, and censored, Internet. Net Neutrality imo pales when compared to Big Data harvesting having influence over the population :)
 

SamDabbers

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You all know what the solution will inevitably be...

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In fact, forget the blackjack, and the Internet :p