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A comment on Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent. Parent comment

Re:Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing d... by bb88 on Friday May 31, 2019 @07:19PM (#20065983)
Without reading the bill, not necessarily.

It's entirely feasible to have two classes of customers, right? One that agreed to the provision, and one that didn't. One that gets a 500GB data cap, and one that gets 150GB, say.

Just because you serve a customer doesn't mean you must serve them equally. Afterall, technically, they are serving the customer, right?

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Re:Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing d... by talaketu on Friday May 31, 2019 @07:49PM (#20066124)
wrong. it should take <1 minute to follow the link and read that section.

> (2) Charge a customer a penalty or offer a customer a discount based on the customer's decision to provide or not provide consent under paragraph A.

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Re:Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing d... by gpm on Friday May 31, 2019 @08:53PM (#20066385)
Providing extra bandwidth isn't necessarily a discount though, especially if you structure your offerings in a way that it's impossible to purchase the extra bandwidth.

It's against the spirit of the law of course, but maybe not the letter.

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Re:Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing d... by cameronbrown on Friday May 31, 2019 @09:20PM (#20066504)
Extra bandwidth for the same amount of money is effectively a discount.
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