What you're saying is totally valid, but notice this: you're talking about types of traffic, and the customer's priorities.
If customers had control over this - saying 'prioritize my traffic on port X' or something like that - it would be fine.
What net neutrality proponents fear is discrimination based on carriers' priorities and the origins of traffic.
For example, imagine that Comcast throttles Youtube because they want you to buy the cable package. They're not benefitting the customer. They're not delivering what the customer or the taxpayer paid for.
What if AT&T wouldn't connect my call to Verizon's sales department? What if my Toyota stalled out when I tried to drive to the Honda dealership?
The bottom line is that if a customer pays for access, it should be theirs to use and prioritize as they see fit.
Actually, I had not considered this. Thanks. QOS could easily be controlled on the client side, the same way Firefox or Safari apply less memory and bandwidth to webpages in unfocused tabs, while giving the page in the current tab the most love.
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What you're saying is totally valid, but notice this: you're talking about types of traffic, and the customer's priorities.
If customers had control over this - saying 'prioritize my traffic on port X' or something like that - it would be fine.
What net neutrality proponents fear is discrimination based on carriers' priorities and the origins of traffic.
For example, imagine that Comcast throttles Youtube because they want you to buy the cable package. They're not benefitting the customer. They're not delivering what the customer or the taxpayer paid for.
What if AT&T wouldn't connect my call to Verizon's sales department? What if my Toyota stalled out when I tried to drive to the Honda dealership?
The bottom line is that if a customer pays for access, it should be theirs to use and prioritize as they see fit.
Actually, I had not considered this. Thanks. QOS could easily be controlled on the client side, the same way Firefox or Safari apply less memory and bandwidth to webpages in unfocused tabs, while giving the page in the current tab the most love.