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Net Neutrality Gives 'Free' Internet To Netflix and Google, ISP Claims (arstechnica.com)

Posted by msmash on from the closer-look dept.

Frontier Communications is asking employees for help in its fight against state net neutrality rules in California, claiming that the rules will give "free" Internet to major Web companies while raising costs for consumers. From a report: The Internet service provider urged employees to submit a form letter asking Governor Jerry Brown to veto the net neutrality bill that was recently approved by the state legislature. Frontier sent an email to employees and set up an online form for them to send the form letter to Brown. "I am proud to work at Frontier and help operate a network that is part of an incredibly successful Internet ecosystem that is the backbone of our economy and daily life," the form letter says. But net neutrality rules "will harm consumers and impose complex layers of costly regulation," and therefore "deter investment and delay broadband deployment in California, especially in rural areas that still lack high-speed Internet access," the letter says. The letter claims that net neutrality rules "will create significant new costs for consumers" but did not make it clear what those new costs would be.

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  1. Why? by RickyShade · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why are corporations all a bunch of lying-ass trash?

    1. Re:Why? by reg · · Score: 4, Interesting

      content publishers and distributors get to peer directly with an isp and flood their network with whatever data the content provider wants

      What utter nonsense. The content providers are what make the internet work - without content there is no internet. The ISP's users are who is "flooding the network with whatever data they want", because they are requesting it. If the ISP has too much traffic they need to ask their users to stop asking for it.

      Don't be a stooge for the ISPs.

  2. AT&T's "our pipes" BS all over again by bersl2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    https://web.archive.org/web/20...

  3. Re:Last I checked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    BS.

    The internet was doing just fine before the corporations took it over.

    It was actually better.

  4. ISP gets free Google and Netflix by Njovich · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They are right and it's called market power. ISP's should thank god Google and Netflix aren't charging ISP's yet for the privilege of having their service, as consumers would be happy to ditch any service that doesn't offer them.

    1. Re:ISP gets free Google and Netflix by TFlan91 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I would love to see the backlash of Netflix dropping Comcast or League of Legends/DotA dropping Cox.

      I'd get the biggest bowl of popcorn and just watch

  5. Re:Less, not more by HornWumpus · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You don't even know the definition of net neutrality.

    Net neutrality doesn't make QoS illegal. It requires that all traffic of the _same_type_ be treated the same.

    Which is the downside of course. A bunch of clueless fuckwit, government lawyers are in charge of the definition of QoS.

    --
    John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
  6. Decades ago on 60 Minutes... by magusxxx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They had a piece about a city which built a new baseball stadium but had no team. And any time another city would say no to their current baseball team demands, the team owner would say, "We could always move there." So, this empty stadium was continually used as an excuse for giving the team owners what they wanted. This city's empty stadium was constantly being used as a bargaining chip and a scapegoat.

    I think of this story every time I read, "...deter investment and delay broadband deployment...in rural areas..."

    --
    Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.