Re:Keep the Internet Open
by bo1024 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:07PM
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Agreed. I don't think it would be good for consumers, but it wouldn't be very good for Google if every youtube video people watch buffers slowly and flickers, meanwhile $ISP has created a competing website that runs fine. Nor would it be good for Facebook if $ISP replaces all advertisements on their page with $ISP's own ads. (Hmm, I guess HTTPS should be able to prevent this?)
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Re:Keep the Internet Open
by jodrellblank on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:11PM
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meanwhile $ISP has created a competing website that runs fine.
It wouldn't be good for Google, but this seems as likely as an ISP beating SpaceX to the moon. It's hard enough to get an ISP to provide internet service most of the time.
Netflix is an easier example. I know that Comcast Xfinity, for example, already offers a bunch of video streaming on demand, and more if you buy their TV subscription in addition to internet. So they already have a partial competitor to Netflix and Hulu, with a big incentive to mess with connections to those companies so people will use theirs instead.
Telstra in Australia invests a phenomenal amount of money into "Stan" / this.