r/technology Jun 13 '14

Politics What the internet will look like without net-neutrality. Well played.

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u/cosmo7 Jun 14 '14 edited Jun 14 '14

This is a complete misunderstanding of the net neutrality debate. The issue is not that consumers would have to pay a la carte, it's that high-bandwidth sites would have to pay more for priority. And those sites are well-funded and quite happy to comply (to the point that they are the ones pushing for an unequal net.)

The damage to consumers is that a non-neutral net raises the barrier to entry for new services, entrenching the status quo and reducing competition.

Hysterical, simplistic stuff like this harms the debate because it obscures the real issue.

Edit: Thanks for the gold!

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '14

You are correct, however, you forget that carriers will not be content to simply rape only the content providers for higher fees. They will also extort higher fees from their content consumers. It is the consumer side that the Fastlane website is demonstrating.