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    I find the Net Neutrality debate a bit of an odd one: One the one hand, of course keep the net as neutral as possible - on the other, why should any single entity be able to abuse that neutrality for its own gain?

    For instance, Netflix comprises up to 37% of all the internet traffic in North America at peaks. Is that fair? They're essentially piggybacking off infrastructure paid for by others.

    That's a singular example, but it seems off to me.

    In any other industry, the more you use, the more you pay - why not here?

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    Now, Neutrality at the consumer level? That's different, and should be sacrosanct.

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    I tend to assume I'm missing something in this debate...

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    • Netflix can afford to pay the fee, new competitors won't, thats the issue. killing Net Neutrality ensures the dominance of the big entities.moldero
    • also theres the issue of your ISP choking the bandwidth of anything they compete with in anyway, including politics.moldero
    • its bad enough they control our mainstream media, hence why they dont talk about it on TV, in this way they basically own TV, now they're trying to do the samemoldero
    • with what we see on the Internetmoldero
    • good question btwmoldero
    • great question, great answer. my faith in qbn has been restored.kona
    • check that, i'm back from the politics thread. we're fuckedkona
    • Wouldn't Netflix already be paying for all that bandwidth? How are they piggybacking any more than anyone else?yuekit
    • What you're more likely to see once they kill net neutrality is that certain sites get a better deal than others. For instance, access to Comcast Video does notyuekit
    • if one service provider is capable to hijack the capacity of an infrastructure, that isn't the service providers or the consumers fault it's a design error.sted
    • count towards your data cap, but Netflix does. And this will encourage the industry to consolidate, because suddenly the ISP is not just a neutral carrier.yuekit
    • on a well balanced and managed network you should never feel when the new house of cards is out.sted
    • Netflix pay for bandwidth in and out of the door of their servers, sure - but not across the infrastructure, so to speak.detritus
    • I'm still ruminating moldero's very good answer - I get where you're coming from, but surely there needs to be a mechanic for larger players to pay more?detritus
    • ..without tripping up newcomers and bloating incumbents.detritus
    • But i'm going to burn something if I can't transfer files with the same bandwidth like now, because there is a new game of thrones episode and HBO paid...sted
    • detritus -- from what I understand that's actually not a net neutrality issue, although Netflix has misleadingly framed it that way.yuekit
    • https://www.cnet.com…yuekit
    • net neutrality also has a clause in it that ISP's get to shut you down and report you to the authorities if you pirate shitmoldero
    • imagine if you had to pay extra to drive fast on the highway ... fuck that shitmonospaced
    • You do, essentially - you have fuel taxes in the states, no? We have road tax here in the EU too.detritus
    • And car taxes..detritus
    • in a way we do with speeding ticketsmoldero
    • Mono, it's the same exact thing as a tollway or buying a tag for a freeway's "limo" lanes. People already pay to go fast.MondoMorphic
    • missing the pointmonospaced
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