UK's Two Biggest ISPs Rip Up Net Neutrality

Barence writes "The UK's two biggest ISPs have openly admitted they'd give priority to certain internet apps or services if companies paid them to do so. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on net neutrality, senior executives from BT and TalkTalk said they would be happy to put selected apps into the fast lane, at the expense of their rivals. Asked specifically if TalkTalk would afford more bandwidth to YouTube than the BBC's iPlayer if Google was prepared to pay, the company's executive director of strategy and regulation, Andrew Heaney, argued it would be 'perfectly normal business practice to discriminate between them.' Meanwhile, BT's Simon Milner said: 'We absolutely could see a situation when content or app providers may want to pay BT for quality of service above best efforts,' although he added BT had never received such an approach."

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Re:Credit where credit is due

[ElectricTurtle]

While the rank and file German population may not have known specifically that the Jews (and others) were being starved/gassed/experimented upon/worked/prostituted/etc. to death and then skinned so that their skin could be made into lampshades and other common objects one might associate with leather goods for the amusement of the SS (yes, that happened, look it up), it strains credulity to think that the German people thought that all the Jews who were being rounded up into trucks were going to some halcyon isle of puppies and rainbows. Ignorance of the specifics does not absolve them of complicity with prima facie wrongdoing.

Re:Credit where credit is due

[ElectricTurtle]

You know, honestly, if I could learn Mandarin and tolerate the deficiency of individual liberty, I would move to Taiwan as soon as possible. The xenophobia of East Asia I can deal with, but I'm kind of attached to the whole 'inalienable rights' thing. I just wish Asia would stop taunting me with all the cute girls, haute cuisine, cheap electronics, fascinating arts and culture... but limited freedom. Motherfucker... I suppose I'm stuck living around Coors-guzzling rednecks where every other radio station is evangelical Christian.

On the bright side, I suppose, if the left ever succeeds in undermining all the freedoms I care about, I won't have anything left to keep me here... too bad I'm already married... so still no cute girls.