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I'm trying to understand but follow this example:Dr_bee wrote:It is made to prevent both. The primary argument against it is that it prevents setting up preferred lines for medical facilities for example, but it also prevents them from arbitrarily throttling websites that dont pay for special treatment from the ISP. It is easier to make a special line by giving the people who pay for special lines preferred access to lines that already exist. Special lines made for special buyers means that there is less bandwidth for others.CosmicScientist wrote: As a question of my own, are net neutrality regulations supposed to prevent arbitrary, malicious or favoured decision making for business and end user traffic when the system is over saturated, or is it to prevent artificial slowing down of traffic when physical capacity can handle the paid for data plan, or is it both? I have no clue if the netflix graph shown on the previous page is showing actively malicious or preferential behaviour or something I don't know about because me no looky uppy this stoof.
Net neutrality regulations basically keep the ISPs from acting like a de-facto extortion racket. The amount of power Telecoms would have over the economy without these regulations is frightening.
You live in the middle of nowhere. You have shitty internet infrastructure. You want to watch netflix but you can't because your internet is shit. Here comes the cable company, they lay miles of state-of-the-art fiber network up to your living room. Now you can watch netflix all day, loading their network with terabits of data. But thanks to net neutrality, the company can't charge you more for that, or netflix either. They just spent billions of dollars only to provide Netflix with a hefty profit.
Now let's move to your neighbour. He is a farmer. He couldn't care less about netflix, he uses the internet just to tend to his business, watch a couple youtube videos and stalk pre-teens on facebook. He has access to the same network as you do, he pays the same as you do. But he'd rather pay less for a package that only includes high speed for the stuff he actually cares about. Cable company spent money to give him something he doesn't even want.