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Are you referring to the topic in this 2014 article refuting your claim about "internet companies" trying to charge Netflix extra? When in fact Netflix's own ISP, who Netflix rightly pays, was actually doing critically important network management.

I am attentive to Net Neutrality arguments because I care about an open internet, but I have yet to hear one that doesn't betray a total lack of understanding of how the internet actually works; i.e., peering. Perhaps counterintuitively, the FCC is right on the money about rolling back Obama's populist regulations.





Net Neutrality doesn't prevent QoS related management, but it does prevent per site throttling.

My ISP doesn't have a right to throttle streaming video content because they want to sell me a $90 cable package.


Throttling is or can be indistinguishable from QoS management.




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