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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by xienze on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:35PM (#17298695)
> On top of all that, with the end of NN, AT&T can preferentially shove TWX content in your face, and force you to pay extra to consume someone else's.

Will they though? I don’t recall such a thing happening prior to NN. It always seems that people’s fantasies about what can happen without NN are worse than what will (or did).

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by rosser on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:36PM (#17298704)
Remember when AT&T blocked FaceTime because it competed with their own product?

I do.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by scarface74 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:31PM (#17299010)
AT&T blocked FaceTime because they were afraid that thier crappy overburdened network couldn’t handle the load. [1]

But for some reason, they weren’t worried about other video chatting apps - for instance you could use Yahoo Messenger at the time. What competing app did AT&T have?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/atandt-l...

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