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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
There's a difference between charging someone for using more bandwidth (OK) and charging someone for using bandwidth in a particular manner (not OK). What Comcast was doing was the equivalent of a phone company charging you more to call homes than to call stores.
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This is it in a nutshell. Net neutrality is essentially the belief that all Internet traffic should be treated equally, byte by byte.
This brings up a good point. I always feel a bit put out by the fact that I can't use Google.com. I can only use Google Canada.
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