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Re:FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2... by dfxm12 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:40PM (#37945971)
Interesting as this talking about performance degradation and payments from netflix to comcast in Dec 2013-Jan 2014. Nextflix happened to raise prices of their service a few months later in Apr 2014...
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Re:FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2... by wmf on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:59PM (#37946232)
Exactly. When Netflix pays extortion to ISPs that money comes from your pocket, not Netflix's profits.
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Re:FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2... by bradleybuda on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:03PM (#37947148)
And when Netflix stops paying money to ISPs, the ISPs will get that money from... your pocket.

All of this is fungible and companies compete for the marginal dollar of revenue. Despite the wishcasting of central planners, there's no magic way to manifest money out of the pockets of one class of corporations without the system shifting to a new equilibrium.

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Re:FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2... by behringer on Sunday October 22, 2023 @01:08PM (#37977119)
The issue is that now smaller ISPs or honest ISPs have to raise their advertised prices compared to Comcast.
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Re:FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2... by TheRealDunkirk on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:19PM (#37946512)
It's a self-contained lesson in corporation taxation, I suppose.
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