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Comment Hold on a minute (Score 1) 257

Net neutrality supporters want new laws prohibiting Internet providers from blocking or degrading traffic from their competitors' networks.

Wasn't this already fought over in Congress. I remember hearing about this issue in particular, where ISPs wanted to be able to block certain sites, and they lost. I think what's going to happen here is what happened to Real Estate and all other businesses. There will be anti-discrimination laws most likely, but the real issue of Net Neutrality, at least from what i've read, is cost. This really only came to the table because Google and Yahoo and other such sites are implimenting Broadband streaming video, which uses a lot of bandwidth. They want to then use this "Net Neutrality" concept to pass their costs on to everyone else by forcing ISPs to charge everyone a flat rate. So, instead of each person paying for their own bandwidth use, everybody pays for everyone's bandwidth use. Which helps out big businesses a lot, but hurts smaller sites.

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