Neutral Net Needs Twice the Bandwidth of Tiered

berberine writes with a link to Ars Technica, straight to an article discussing the differences between a net neutral internet and one that supports tiers of content. As you might imagine, our neutral internet is far more bandwidth-intensive; AT&T estimates it might require as much as twice the bandwidth of a tiered internet. From the article: "Corporate sponsorship of research doesn't automatically invalidate that research; what's needed is a close look at the actual results to determine if they were done correctly. According to David Isenberg, a long-time industry insider and proponent of 'dumb' (neutral) networks, the research itself is fine. In his view, it's simply obvious that a dumb network will require more peak capacity than a managed one. But extending that banal observation to make the claim that running a managed network is cheaper is, to Isenberg, not at all intuitive. For one thing, doubling the peak volume of a network does not mean spending twice as much money as it cost to build the original network."

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IOW: Corporate Welfare Economy not Capitalism

[OldHawk777]

All our politicians favor a Corporate Welfare/Socialist Economy like communism.

Communism was social theory applied to economics governing.
Corporatism is economic theory applied to society/culture governing.
Either way it is a plutocracy/oligarchy but not Capitalism or Democracy.

So, Capitalism, Democracy, People, Patriotism, god, values ... are all
spun to political agenda-crap demagoguery. No meaning, all truthyness,
complete special interest dogma by the few to oppress the many. Sounds
like governments of 3 millennium ago .... Who could possibly believes in
evolution there must be a cruel god playing war and hope as practical jokes.

FOLLOW THE WEALTH VALUES, because there are no ethics, moral, and justice
values for corporatist/plutocrats, just greed-value for those fools/losers.
Without honor, ethics ... you are a fool and loser ... just like King George.

King George and the corporatist aristocracy depend on net-nepotism.
Only US Citizens support Net-neutrality for capitalism and advancements in
quality of life, education, democracy.