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Originally Posted by screwballl
This is also why we need to stop these illegal "net neutrality" bills that Congress keeps trying to force through.
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Well....
AFAIK there is nothing illegal about the proposed bills, though obviously this would depend on the actual language of the bill and pursuant to judicial review.
There is also a big difference between an ISP and a retailer. An ISP is more like a utility or phone company, and they are not held responsible for any content they transmit.
I concur that service providers should have some latitude to shape bandwidth. The potential anti-competitive issues are what happens if Comcast simultaneously launches an online movie service and throttles Netflix.
Net neutrality also doesn't allow people to resell bandwidth or remove caps on the end users. It's more of a heavy-handed method of ensuring that ISP's don't shape traffic to their own advantage.