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Senators opposing net neutrality rake in more campaign cash
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<blockquote data-quote="technofox" data-source="post: 66345145" data-attributes="member: 192118"><p>Can you please elaborate?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Net neutrality is more than just access to information, it is also about power. The problem is that you have ISPs that are wanting content providers to pay money to then have priority over other traffic on their network. </p><p></p><p>Think of it of this way, you have a highway that everyone has equal access to. Now someone wants others to pay for the privilege to travel on that road a little faster than everyone else, which is what the large ISPs are doing. </p><p></p><p>Netflix for example has already has it's own ISP, thus it has already paid to go onto the shared internet highway. Comcast, et al want Netflix to pay to travel down the same lane as regular traffic as everything else, but will get higher priority to reach its destination a little faster. Netflix already paid the toll to get on to the highway, but now they are being told they should be paying for both ends. In the end Netflix will raise prices and pass off the higher extra expense to their customers, so now their customers are indirectly paying to go and off the highway to stream videos off of Netflix.</p><p></p><p>P.S. I have a very strong network engineering background and intimately familiar with this subject. Personally the current fight in congress is for equal access to a shared highway and not having large companies force smaller companies to pay for fast lanes, which technically isn't a fast lane just higher prioritization of traffic (i.e. They can cut ahead inline). It's not completely about access to information as you may think it is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technofox, post: 66345145, member: 192118"] Can you please elaborate? Net neutrality is more than just access to information, it is also about power. The problem is that you have ISPs that are wanting content providers to pay money to then have priority over other traffic on their network. Think of it of this way, you have a highway that everyone has equal access to. Now someone wants others to pay for the privilege to travel on that road a little faster than everyone else, which is what the large ISPs are doing. Netflix for example has already has it's own ISP, thus it has already paid to go onto the shared internet highway. Comcast, et al want Netflix to pay to travel down the same lane as regular traffic as everything else, but will get higher priority to reach its destination a little faster. Netflix already paid the toll to get on to the highway, but now they are being told they should be paying for both ends. In the end Netflix will raise prices and pass off the higher extra expense to their customers, so now their customers are indirectly paying to go and off the highway to stream videos off of Netflix. P.S. I have a very strong network engineering background and intimately familiar with this subject. Personally the current fight in congress is for equal access to a shared highway and not having large companies force smaller companies to pay for fast lanes, which technically isn't a fast lane just higher prioritization of traffic (i.e. They can cut ahead inline). It's not completely about access to information as you may think it is. [/QUOTE]
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