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[the_cat_kittles]

are you a paid troll? what good comes from selective throttling?

[Spivak → the_cat_kittles]

Just as an example, not getting shit internet speeds around 7:30 when everyone turns on Netflix.

[jquery → Spivak]

I remember my former large apartment building’s internet slowing to a crawl everyday around this time.

[imtringued → Spivak]

We need batteries for internet traffic the same way we need batteries for renewable energy...

[jquery → the_cat_kittles]

Please don’t call people shills on HN. That’s very rude.

Selective throttling has worked great to make my t-mobile mobile data usage seamlessly switch between email, websites, and video on an “unlimited” plan. They even doe sample my videos to 480p to save bandwidth unless I vpn.

So there’s one non-trolly example of innovation that has made my life better that net neutrality would prevent.

I do not buy the doomsday scenarios. We started with AOL internet and moved to a freer internet over time, all without net neutrality.

[cat199 → jquery]

> We started with AOL internet and moved to a freer internet over time, all without net neutrality.

no, we started with 'the real internet' and then AOL showed up.

[jquery → cat199]

No true Scotsman. Before AOL we had Usenet with its own issues. AOL helped bring the internet to the masses.