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Originally Posted by woj
"If we had had such discrimination a decade ago, we would still be using MySpace, not Facebook, because Facebook would have been unable to compete."
This whole discussion is full of loaded terms like "discrimination", "slow lane", etc... but isn't the gist of it, that some companies want to pay extra to get their data delivered faster? Isn't that exactly like amazon.com paying extra to get their packages delivered faster?
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No, because these very same internet providers have been paid our tax dollars as subsidies in order to improve their backbones. Tax payers have already paid for fiber networks to our homes, but the companies took the money and ran, not delivering on their promises. Tax payers have greatly subsidized the networks these companies use to make profits with.
It's not like they built it all themselves on their own dime.