I saw a short article about it this evening, but tbh I didn’t pay much attention to the Net Neutrality stuff from years ago so I don’t fully get it. What are the effects if it changes (or doesn’t)?
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basically, net neutrality is about preventing the Internet Service Providers (ISPs.) from playing preference to specific companies or types of traffic that suit their interests. I’ll give an example
Say your the sole provider of internet backbone to a region (like a city). The public might buy internet form several difference companies but it all travels over *your* cables to get out to the wider world. One day, Microsoft approaches you and offers to pay you a butt-load of money to give X-box traffic higher priority over Playstation traffic.
You take the money, and fiddle with the code in your core routers, and boom! suddenly every PlayStation player in the city is getting serious lag and bandwidth issues. the Xbox players are unaffected. frustrated with thier bad service, more gamers move over to Xbox in that region.
thats the sort of thing that net neutrality was supposed to prevent happening. it mandates that all traffic is treated equally by the ISP, with no preferential system in place.
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