Real Net Neutrality Problem: 'Edge Provider' vs 'End User'

An anonymous reader writes At the Washington Post, Brett Frischmann elaborates on the theory that the continuing flaw with the FCC's Net-Neutrality strategy lies in the perverse distinction between "End User" and "Edge Provider". Succinctly: "The key to an open Internet is nondiscrimination and in particular, a prohibition on discrimination or prioritization based on the identity of the user (sender/receiver) or use (application/content)," and then, "Who exactly are the end users that are not edge providers? In other words, who uses the Internet but does not provide any content, application, or service? The answer is no one. All end users provide content as they engage in communications with other end users, individually or collectively. ... Think of all the startups and small businesses run from people's homes on home Internet connections, using WordPress tools or Amazon hosting services. Are they 'end users' when they email their friends but 'edge providers' when they switch windows to check their business metrics?"

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Interesting devices

[Registered Coward v2]

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election time

[globaljustin]

i'd like to see a factor analysis of the number of troll/AC posts that use racism and the nearness to an election or important policy decision

we all know that unscrupulous entities use every kind of social network and internet forum to promote whatever agenda...be it New World Order/Military Industrial Complex/CIA/political parties/criminals/etc

i think we can correlate the type of sockpuppet troll with current events and extrapolate who is behind the sockpuppets and why

here on /. we are definitely mostly white and tend to be Progressive or "libertarian"

the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Bush family, English Crown all pay lobbyists to do perception management, including online

i'm saying all these racism/trolls are to tap into any resentment that underemployed or wife-pecked white non-Progressive educated people have

just trolling w/ racism gets the idea out there...then you get Obama on TV...