Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am...
by dj_brown_sugar on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:15PM
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> Without net neutrality, ISPs would be free to charge big players like Google and Netflix more money, and that would leave a lot more room for smaller players to get involved.
When ISPs decide that they should charge more for all video traffic, the smaller companies can't pay it but the larger ones can. Why would the ISPs act in the benefit of small companies when they can make more by charging more for all streaming video.
Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am...
by Nullabillity on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:33PM
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Except this usually works out the exact opposite, where the big companies get discounts in exchange for (predictable) volume.
Without net neutrality, ISPs would be free to charge big players like Google and Netflix more money, and that would leave a lot more room for smaller players to get involved. Getting "the same terms" as Google and Netflix is not always, inherently, a good thing.