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it means the same as it always did. net neutrality as you describe it didn't draw a distinction between "end nodes". Everything that has a wire connected to it is a node. The wires are the edges. Some nodes transmit or receive more than others, and some have different purposes. Some are even behind firewalls.

In this context, the net is not neutral if traffic-shaping is applied to some packets and not others, which is the same as what you describe.

Perhaps the circumstances for signing agreements are a lot more complicated than it used to be, but at its heart, it is the same problem.




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