The Internet's Gilded Age

Re:The Internet's Gilded Age by throwaway000002 on Friday March 17, 2017 @10:53PM (#13899641)

To clarify, the author uses CDNs to indicate the content silos that are goog, appl, amzn, fb, etc., which is not traditional usage.

But in light of this, I see him as essentially correct. Any one of them could demand payment from ISPs for their content (their endusers would revolt otherwise). The new willingness to dismantle "net neutrality" does not hurt any of them, only startups. And, as for the carriers, cablecos, telcos, etc, their window of monopoly is over, they should have invested in content when they had the chance.

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Re:The Internet's Gilded Age by throwaway000002 on Friday March 17, 2017 @10:56PM (#13899650)

Seriously, if my ISP was forced to have no Gmail tomorrow, I'd flip out, and change ISPs (thankfully I have that option).

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Re:The Internet's Gilded Age by pjmlp on Saturday March 18, 2017 @03:59AM (#13900390)

Which is why even though I use gmail as an aggregator of my email accounts, that isn't my actual main email, as they are older than Google.

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