 sivranBack to Opera againPremium
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Re: Net neutrality shouldn't mean ISP's cant offer exclusive pip Neutrality isn't about ISPs offering faster or even exclusive pipes to end users (be they consumers or companies).
It's about shenanigans and double-dipping. Imagine if Comcast said to Blizzard, "you must pay us if you want to be able to connect to us." Now, Blizzard's ISP is AT&T. They're already paying AT&T. Comcast has millions of users paying them, millions who would be quite angry if Blizzard rightfully refused to pay, and Comcast cut them off. Unfortunately for Comcast users, they'd have no idea what Comcast had done (well, for a while, anyway). Now this is a bit extreme, and Comcast would have to deal with many angry customers. But what if ALL the big ISPs did this? Blizzard would have no choice but to pay up. Now imagine this happening to a smaller company, one that couldn't afford to pay two, three, four times for internet access.
That is what net neutrality seeks to prevent.
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