FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger rollbacks

Re:FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger ro... by oldrny on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:06PM (#13727331)

Isn't the idea of network neutrality to prevent discriminating between traffic sources, not quantities? I.e. providers can still charge an arm and a leg for heavy users, and allow 'light' users to pay significantly less (maybe based on some non-linear scale?)

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Re:FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger ro... by aanm1988 on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:14PM (#13727424)

Yeah, but anti-neutrality people tend to try to create the other narrative. Popular metaphor I've seen is "net neutrality is like telling the post office they have to charge the same for a large heavy package and an envelope". Which is not true, you have to charge the same for each heavy package regardless of what is in it, but you can still charge more than an envelope.

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