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Re:Ask HN: How can we stop the plan to end net neutrality? by pjc50 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:45AM (#15747038)
> electricity company literally cannot figure out what brand of appliance you're using

That's a technological limitation; I know various companies that have half-working solutions for discriminating what kind of appliance you're using from a smart meter, based on its consumption profile and noise profile. Nobody's yet attempted plug-level DRM but it's not technologically impossible ...

Really what America needs is "local loop unbundling" in addition to net neutrality. But we're in the realms of what's politically achievable.

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Re:Ask HN: How can we stop the plan to end net neutrality? by theandrewbailey on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:27AM (#15748013)
> Really what America needs is "local loop unbundling" in addition to net neutrality.

If we have local loop unbundling, NN will come on the backs of meaningful competition it would ensue (as opposed to Pai competition).

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