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Democrats revive the fight for net neutrality

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Re: Democrats revive the fight for net neutrality

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One aspect of net neutrality that doesn't make sense to me is the ban to throttle traffic. It's bandwidth over some time period and higher peak loads does cost more. A simple example is how on airplanes, WiFi doesn't support streaming video, etc. but allows text messaging. So would this bill make that illegal? If so, that wouldn't make video streaming on planes come sooner, just make plane WiFi more expensive.

NN has never aimed to ban throttling traffic. I see this repeated often enough I assume it can from some opposition talking point.

NN aims to ban paid prioritization, and specifically allows for throttling for network management purposes. That means providers can throttle when links are busy, but not give certain services a priory lane.

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