Net Neutrality’s Holes in Europe May Offer Peek at Future in U.S

Re:Net Neutrality’s Holes in Europe May Offer Peek at Future... by rb808 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:56AM (#15906471)

I know most people here hate ISPs/Cable Companies/Phone companies. But they deserve more respect and profits than they get. The FANG companies are making incredible amounts of money and its a bit unfair that the broadband providers have to provide easy access between users and the FANGs by law. Esp as they're the ones doing the hard work of fixing your cable in the snow, paying local taxes.

My ideal would be repeal of net neutrality - but with UK style competition of ISP services where an independent 3rd party owns the pipes and ISPs compete with whatever packages they want.

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Re:Net Neutrality’s Holes in Europe May Offer Peek at Future... by ropiku on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:26AM (#15906792)

How is it unfair ? They are in a totally different business.

ISPs are providing a service to their users: the internet. Their users pay for internet access (not just a certain subset) and they decide that they want to use the bandwidth for Youtube or Facebook. 5mbps on a "cable in the snow" is 5mbps regardless if it's coming from Youtube or Netflix or some indie company.

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Re:Net Neutrality’s Holes in Europe May Offer Peek at Future... by rb808 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:50AM (#15907042)

I think my point is that there should be choice. If someone wants to pay for neutral 5mbps internet that is fine. If someone wants to buy a connection that is cheaper but throttles everything that isn't Amazon, that is fine too as long as they have a choice.

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