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Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by wongarsu on Sunday March 29, 2015 @09:33AM (#9284753)
Net neutrality is about carriers treating all traffic equally. Banning a country from the internet is discriminating traffic by origin. That sounds like a net neutrality issue if there ever was one. Whether the discrimination happens in the hardware or in the software stack is a mere implementation detail.
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Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by jasonwocky on Sunday March 29, 2015 @10:01AM (#9284834)
> Net neutrality is about carriers treating all traffic equally

If it was simply "about" that, then that would include DDOS traffic. Which no one in their right mind wants to treat equally.

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Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by cubano on Sunday March 29, 2015 @10:58AM (#9285030)
Sure it is, but if some carriers are a state-sponsored arm of a bad actor and are told by their masters not to treat traffic equally, thus breaking the net neutrality pact, then what are the responsibilities of the the other carriers?

Worms, meet can.

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