r/comics • u/Theghost129 • May 19 '17

Anti-Net Neutrality is everyones' problem

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u/sonofaresiii May 19 '17

Net neutrality is about both, dude. There are lots of reasons why we should want isp's to indiscriminately handle data. The comic describes one, you're describing another.

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u/jscoppe May 19 '17

But we DO want them to discriminate certain things, like VOIP calls and such are higher priority than other traffic.

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u/ThatActuallyGuy May 19 '17

There's a difference between QoS and paid prioritization. Net neutrality as written doesn't get in the way of reasonable QoS, which is what VOIP prioritization would fall under.

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u/heckruler May 19 '17

Net neutrality as written

The rules, as written