Join the Battle for Net Neutrality

Re:Join the Battle for Net Neutrality by Dylan16807 on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @05:06AM (#15755679)

> "It's all just bits" except sometimes it's 100 megabytes of video a second and sometimes it's a 100kb HN post and delivering those things satisfactorily does not take the same levels of resources.

Don't strawman. "It's all just bits" is talking about the resources needed per bit.

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Re:Join the Battle for Net Neutrality by BoorishBears on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:48AM (#15757671)

It's not a strawman, the amount of resources X required to deliver at least Y bits per second is not a linear relationship.

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Re:Join the Battle for Net Neutrality by Dylan16807 on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:28PM (#15759149)

Doesn't the non-linearity work against the argument for zero-rating? The big fat video costs significantly less per bit to deliver.

Besides, net neutrality is 100% compatible with charging different prices for different connection speeds. Just make a free 1mbps tier and don't discriminate between HN posts and low-end video.

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