Net neutrality update

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Comcast throttled Bittorrent. They never throttled Skype. You think they did because that was the topic of a ten-year-old thread where you suggested that they were planning to throttle Skype.

You were wrong. IEEE Spectrum said they bought software to skew Skype packets - before they had throttled Bittorrent. I was right. You were wrong. Comcast denied they had bought the software. Skype demonstrated that Comcast was manipulating packets so that Skype connections were intermittent / interrupted.

Comcast was not the only one doing this. Most Persian Gulf nations also purchased the software to do same.

That is now acceptable under the new rules that say a data transporter can do anything they want. They can throttle packets from one company while not from others. They can skew packets to intentionally subvert or make unreliable communications from selected companies. And they can now deny they are doing it. All that and more is now legal.

Wacko Trump supporters say this is good. To them, this is called innovation.