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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:25PM (#15916209)
It seems to me that the question they asked is overly broad:

> it is a good idea to let companies that send video or other content to consumers pay more to Internet service providers for the right to send that traffic using faster or higher quality service

That could just as easily be interpreted to mean the content providers are paying their own ISP for faster service which net neutrality would allow as it could to mean the content providers paying their users' ISP which net neutrality doesn't allow.

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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by ikeboy on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:34PM (#15916274)
The big content providers don't have an ISP in the traditional sense - they interface directly with "users' ISPs".
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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:23PM (#15918265)
The really big ones that send really huge amounts of data to a really large number of users do that, but that is definitely not a majority of content providers.
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