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| reply to j3richo
Re: Proof Bell throttles everything but known ports/protocols
said by j3richo  :good job, however we already knew that Bell does this when Deadpool admitted they use a "better safe than sorry" policy, meaning they throttle what they can't identify. Got a link to that?
It's certainly been implied that they're molesting anything they can't identify but I haven't seen an explicit admission anywhere.
This has really bad ramifications for the deployment of new protocols on the Canadian Internet. Bell has frozen out the possibility for using anything custom, unusual, or heavily encrypted anywhere in Bell-controlled territory unless Bell decides to allow it. This means that if someone develops a new killer app that uses a new protocol, that 'killer app' won't work in Bell territory until Bell specifically decides to unblock it.
To put this in perspective, just think how slowly the WWW would have been adopted if it was necessary for every ISP to explicitly permit HTTP before their customers could access website. Chances are the Web would still be a niche tool with no widespread market penetration, and with that, the Internet would remain the niche domain of academics and professionals.
This is why we need net neutrality. No one should have to ask permission to innovate. |
