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To: Biggirl

You don’t think a company should be able to charge based on services? How are they supposed to expand and improve if they are forced to give the same service to everyone? If the democrats are for it, I can be sure it is a bogus anti-commerce law.


6 posted on 03/15/2011 8:19:48 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA ("Elections have consequences...." Barry O. Thank you Scott Walker and WI Republicans!!)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
How are they supposed to expand and improve if they are forced to give the same service to everyone?

Net neutrality doesn't mean that. From the point of view of a content provider such as Skype, they pay their ISP for their bandwidth. From the point of view of the consumer, he pays his ISP for his bandwidth. Net neutrality means the consumer's ISP can't charge the content provider (who has no contractual relationship with the ISP, he has his own ISP) just because what they provide to the ISP's customers competes with their own product (think anticompetitive behavior), or just because they want more money. Think of it as a "toll booth on the information superhighway." They add nothing of value, but the use the their customers (you) as leverage to extort money from the content providers.

So, right now I pay my ISP, Netflix pays its ISP, and I pay Netflix. Without net neutrality, Netflix also has to pay my ISP, and since I pay Netflix that basically means I'm paying my ISP for my service twice.

32 posted on 03/15/2011 9:47:03 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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