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Re:Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s ant... by macspoofing on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @03:58PM (#7059665)
>When he said "rich", I assumed the rich people who own the ISPs

Your interpretation is ... strange. The big telecoms are publicly owned. So those "rich people who own the ISPs" are shareholders?

I'm pretty sure zem referred to "rich" and "poor" consumers of internet services. Not telecoms, not corporations.

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Re:Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s ant... by zem on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @04:36PM (#7059909)
actually, i was referring to producers - consumers are mostly affected by net neutrality due to what they do and do not get access to (as gated by the isps). however, with net neutrality thrown out of the door netflix can afford to pay for "up bandwidth", but e.g. a small competitor would be pushed out of the market.
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