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“Net Neutrality” does not mean “equally fast, everywhere”
“Net Neutrality” means too many different things to different people. For example, concerns about the potential for discriminatory practices by ISPs or telcos based on content, application, or identities or affiliations of content consumers or producers are usually conflated with simplistic observations about the need for ‘equal speed’ being a necessary condition for net neutrality.…
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Net Neutrality, or, Tea and the Tillerman
Did Google turn its back on tech and run up the sidelines with Verizon just to plant its flag in future territory ? Was the proposal aimed at pre-empting the FCC, or just gaming them to forestall regulation ? Is a compromise between corporations arguing over the spoils of the internet possible ? Or have…
