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Sports Neutrality

So let's have sports un-neutrality where the New York Yankees pay more to the umpires so their pitchers' strike zones are wider and batters' zones are narrower just like an ISP deciding that Amazon gets more bandwidth than Netflix because they paid more on top of your bill to access the bandwidth.

I don't like or trust the FCC's version of net neutrality, but I don't like ISPs picking and choosing which net sites get prioritization on bandwidth. The net has been a pull technology where I decide what I want as opposed to push technologies like newspapers, radio and TV where the media companies decide what I get to see. The ISPs who get paid to limit bandwidth to the payers competitors are trying to turn the net into another push technology.

The ISPs can limit my bandwidth based on the plan I pay for. They can decide to limit total throughput to make people who sit and watch movies all day to pay for their usage. But picking and chosing which sites I can visit at full speed is unacceptable.

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The net has been a pull technology where I decide what I want as opposed to push technologies like newspapers, radio and TV where the media companies decide what I get to see. The ISPs who get paid to limit bandwidth to the payers competitors are trying to turn the net into another push technology.

The ISPs can limit my bandwidth based on the plan I pay for. They can decide to limit total throughput to make people who sit and watch movies all day to pay for their usage. But picking and chosing which sites I can visit at full speed is unacceptable.

You're buying in to the lies. The Internet is NOT a pull technology where the ISP is selling you an onramp onto some "superhighway"--it's a group of PRIVATE NETWORKS interconnected using a number of international standards. ISPs serve content providers as well as individuals and businesses. If a large content provider who has users across all network backbones wants to best serve their users, they will make interchange agreements with the major ISPs who serve those users. Period.

Nobody is "picking and choosing" which sites you get. Your ISP does, however, have an interest in serving their customers, and having (Netflix for example) using all the bandwidth to the detriment of other services is not necessarily in their interest. Now, it's very possible that your ISP is reserving priority bandwidth for their own services like VOIP. But if they are not meeting your needs, you are free to change to another ISP.