I’m having a hard time getting worked up over the defeat of the net neutrality bill in Congress. Yes, I think that net neutrality is a good idea; but I find it hard to see why the market won’t provide this. I assume consumers will holler bloody blue murder if their ISPs start throttling their YouTube bandwidth or their World of Warcraft games.
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There’s enough competition in the high bandwidth marketplace right now that any effort to throttle sites people want should lead to mass consumer defection. In fact, if the cable company was stupid enough to limit Google’s bandwidth, I expect to see ads from the phone company advertising how much faster they are when accessing Google (or vice versa). Similarly Google and Yahoo can start targetting ads at the customers of evil ISPs telling users how much faster their connection would be with a different ISP. <\/p>\n
Bottom line: bandwidth is a commodity. You can get it anywhere. All that matters is the reliability, speed, and price. The content providers are in a much stronger position. There’s only one Google. There’s only one BBC. There’s only one Amazon. I very much doubt that my ISP will pull this sort of stunt, but if they try I’ll immediately switch to one that promises not to do this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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