[SoFloFreeper]

hmm. had not thought of that. Good point.

Would it not also allow net providers to tell Free Republic they had to pay to be permitted on “their” ‘net, though, while allowing Democratic Underground free access?

Or Comcast, owned by NBC, disallowing Fox News on their “net”?

Just askin’.

[Mariner]

Text-based sites on the internet are "incidental traffic" consuming less than 3% of all traffic.

Besides, what provider would want to force users to a competitor to get what they want?

Jim could probably answer this better, but I would be surprised if the FR servers consume even 100mbs of outbound traffic.

Netflix and Google generate steady flows of up to 10+gbs and peak much higher than that.