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Re:The Decline of Net Neutrality Activism by tptacek on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @12:29AM (#35065589)
Which ISP does that? My subtext is that ISPs don't block things like this, because even though they have regional monopolies in small markets, they make a large fraction of their profits in large markets where they have to compete.
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Re:The Decline of Net Neutrality Activism by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @12:41AM (#35065653)
This was a public example:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/28/netflix-inks-peering-deal-...

But another issue is that if it isn't banned, it can happen in private. The ISP doesn't need to actually throttle the target's traffic if it can credibly threaten to and force them into a contract with an NDA, so we have no way to know how widespread it is.

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Re:The Decline of Net Neutrality Activism by tptacek on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:24AM (#35065882)
That's not an example of an ISP blocking a service?
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Re:The Decline of Net Neutrality Activism by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:55AM (#35066045)
They caused the service to be non-functional. Your objection is to the method of degrading the service?
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