Dec 14, 2018
8:39:54am
Troy McClure All-American
I guess there's no data if one closes their eyes, plugs their ears, etc.

https://www.wired.com/story/year-without-net-neutrality-no-big-changes-yet/

And you know it's a falsehood to claim there's "no data" when it's been presented multiple times on the board where throttling has already taken place and is well documented. Seems rather self defeating to credulity to make an absolutist statement like that that is so easily proven a falsehood. But perhaps it's an accruate portrayal of the anti-net neutrality side. Ends justify the means even if propogating falsehoods is the gameplan.

A widely cited example of a violation of net neutrality principles was the Internet service provider Comcast's secret slowing ("throttling") of uploads from peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) applications by using forged packets.[11] Comcast did not stop blocking these protocols, like BitTorrent, until the Federal Communications Commission ordered them to stop.[12] In another minor example, the Madison River Communications company was fined US$15,000 by the FCC, in 2004, for restricting their customers' access to Vonage, which was rivaling their own services.[13] AT&T was also caught limiting access to FaceTime, so only those users who paid for AT&T's new shared data plans could access the application.[14] In July 2017, Verizon Wireless was accused of throttling after users noticed that videos played on Netflixand YouTube were slower than usual, though Verizon commented that it was conducting "network testing" and that net neutrality rules permit "reasonable network management practices".[15] A September 2018 report from Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst found that U.S. telecom companies are indeed slowing internet traffic to and from those two sites in particular along with other popular apps.[16]

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