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Killgore Trout10/25/2009 1:25:05 pm PDT

re: #224 reine.de.tout
Here’s an overview of the issue…
Network neutrality


The principle states that if a given user pays for a certain level of internet access, and another user pays for a given level of access, that the two users should be able to connect to each other at that given rate of access.

Though the term did not enter popular use until several years later, since the early 2000s advocates of net neutrality and associated rules have raised concerns about the ability of broadband providers to use their last mile infrastructure to block Internet applications and content (e.g. websites, services, protocols), particularly those of competitors.

Basically the large ISP’s block content from smaller competing ISP’s. It would be like having a phone line but you couldn’t call your family because they have a different phone company.