| vivster said: Again, ISPs have the power to raise their prices whenever they want, they don't need to abolish net neutrality for that. Now if other ISPS that are not connected to the datacenter would basically try to strongarm a company into paying them for basically not fucking them over, that's different story. That's also a crime and is called extortion. Don't forget, if laws care about anything it's protecting companies. To add to that it is a gigantic PR disaster for whatever ISP does this and it will lose customers for that and may even face law suits. Abolishing net neutrality is not a free pass to break any law you want. It's only designed to fuck over end consumers directly by charging them more under the guise of "increasing" their speed. As little as there is, there is still some competition among ISPs in the US and they'll be very careful who they fuck with. |
So... Are you saying abolishing net neutrality is probably going to result in increasing prices for end consumers directly? Perhaps as an outsider I haven't been following this closely enough, but every time I've heard about this issue (and it's been quite a few times in the last few years or so), it's sounded like service providers (e.g. Netflix) are the ones that would end up paying more.
