Honest question here. One of the arguments for net neutrality

With net neutrality you can subsidize large bandwidth consumers like Google as a consumer. It gives them much better profit margins which enables them to offer you better services.

>>61340369
>How is digital tiered access fundamentally different from physical tiered access
the utter lack of any physical mechanisms involved. It's the internet, not sneakernet. Digital data transfer is not a rare or exhaustible resource and nothing special needs to be done to get data somewhere faster rather than slower.

The internet's fundamental structure, its inherent nature, is a neutral one. Any concept that tends toward the opposite is purely a made-up thing spawned in the mind of some greedy business asshole who wants to create artificial scarcity to make more money.

Why the fuck do people want to take glorious technology and allow businessmen to utterly fuck it up with their greedy paws?

>>61341875
> is not a rare or exhaustible resource
and does not require manpower proportional to consumption (consumption isn't even the right term since nothing is consumed) or anything of the sort

The internet is an incredible structure and its operation is cheap and nigh unlimited in scale.

Stop trying to ruin it with artificial restrictions.

>>61340369
You can pay dirt cheap cabled connection
Or, you can pay a premium and get fiber connection.
NN as nothing to do about that

>>61340369
It's actually not that different. Google and Netflix and the like already pay their internet providers for high upload speed connections so they can deliver things faster. You lay your internet provider for the speed you want, then you should be able to receive at that speed assuming Google/Netflix/whatever has enough upload available. The thing net neutrality is meant to prevent is your ISP from slowing down the connection they receive from Google/Netflix/whatever just because the company sending didn't pay your ISP ransom. Here's a post office analogy. You know how sometimes shipping companies like FedEx or ups will ship the last mile through the USPS? Imagine if you paid for 2 day shipping on your Amazon package, so ups or FedEx ships it off real quick to your local post office but your post office decides to hold the package for two weeks because FedEx or ups didn't send them a check for loads of money. That's basically what ISPs want to be able to do.