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Re:The Case Against ISP Tolls by rpgmaker on Thursday April 24, 2014 @08:25PM (#7644000)
Five years ago I might have agreed with you. There's no reason to trust that google (another giant private company that disabled my ability to comment on youtube or rate android apps because I dared not to want to join g+) won't pull some crap once they're in a dominant position in the ISP market. Like with many other things google saw the writing on the wall regarding how they at the behest of the ISP and looked for ways to be at least minimally prepared for the worst.
Re:The Case Against ISP Tolls by existencebox on Thursday April 24, 2014 @08:45PM (#7644063)
At the risk of a trite response, it's the evil you know versus the evil you don't, and frankly getting rid of the evil I know (pretty consistent 5-10% packet loss across the board, spiking during bad weather, repeatedly tracked to terrible work in the outdoor cable boxes, but that I get charged 40$ a pop to temporarily have them fix) is worth a gamble in my books.
Re:The Case Against ISP Tolls by jonny_eh on Friday April 25, 2014 @03:59AM (#7645244)
Being coerced into joining a free social network that no one uses is nothing compared to the horrors offered by Comcast.