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Except that electricity is fungible. Electricity encoded with data is not.



Broadband data connections to the internet are more or less fungible.

That's essentially what the whole net neutrality debate is about. Should internet connections be fungible, or should it be possible for connections to be qualitatively different, not merely faster, slower, cheaper, more expensive?


If the provider has a monopoly, that doesn't really matter.




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