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		studentrob on June 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Law... > there wasn't a problem Throttling traffic to certain websites [1] is not a problem? The reason net neutrality policy came into being is ISPs were beginning to violate it [2]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/22/major-int... [2] https://www.freepress.net/our-response/expert-analysis/expla...

scarface74 on June 4, 2019 [–]

The article authors didn’t understand peering agreements that have always been a thing. If one network receives more data than it sends there have always been price negotiations.

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