BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 8 months agoISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics sayarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.workspcgaming@lemmy.catechnology@lemmy.world
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minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46·8 months agoRemember when the cable companies tried shaking down Netflix? This is net neutrality all over again. Next they degrade service for anyone not paying for “positive discrimination“.
minus-squaredohpaz42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 months agoI believe it was mostly Verizon and Comcast, and they still do it to this day.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 months agoRead the article. This is about taking shared spectrum and walling off a portion of it for the services that pay extra. Once that’s allowed, the portion left for net neutrality can be whittled away.
Remember when the cable companies tried shaking down Netflix?
This is net neutrality all over again.
Next they degrade service for anyone not paying for “positive discrimination“.
I believe it was mostly Verizon and Comcast, and they still do it to this day.
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Read the article. This is about taking shared spectrum and walling off a portion of it for the services that pay extra.
Once that’s allowed, the portion left for net neutrality can be whittled away.