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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
When a cell provider offers free bandwidth access to a streaming service, but they charge bandwidth as usual for another service, that is discrimination. It is a violation of net neutrality.
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These practices were actually under review at the time of the election. There were notices sent out and basically the FCC said that allowing companies to pay to have their service not count against data caps on mobile devices is wrong, but companies doing it for free might be okay, but it is still in a gray area. The head of the FCC actually said they were waiting for the election before making any big rulings on this.
Well, now that the election has happened and net neutrality is basically dead, there will be no investigations and doing this, paid or free, is fine.