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Re:Pai: Twitter Is Bigger Threat to Open Net Than ISPs by rhino369 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:28PM (#15801931)
Net Neutrality doesn't "ensure that it's possible for twitter et al to be overthrown by an upstart who gets a level playing field wrt Internet traffic." Twitter/FB/Google don't need ISP's to build barriers to entry, they already have networks effects.

At best it takes away a rather unlikely method of reducing competition for twitter.

IMO, its more likely the ISP's try to extort cash from the web monopolies than accept cash to quash their competitors.

If Twitter really paid ISP's to block competitive services they'd get anti-trust sued into oblivion.

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Re:Pai: Twitter Is Bigger Threat to Open Net Than ISPs by binaryblitz on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @05:01PM (#15802268)
It's not paying to block competitors... It forcing a company to pay for their users traffic to not be throttled by the ISP.
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Re:Pai: Twitter Is Bigger Threat to Open Net Than ISPs by gfodor on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @04:57PM (#15811254)
I'd argue it is a necessary but insufficient condition for net neutrality to exist for there to be any competition for high-bandwidth (or perhaps low-bandwidth) usage internet services.
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