Web host gives FCC a 28.8Kbps slow lane in net neutrality protest

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54. I do not, nor do I think most people posting about it remotely understand it

What people are warning about, that is, the ability of carriers to slow down traffic they don't like carrying, is already completely legal, and would remain legal if anything short of common carrier were enacted (network neutrality is short of common carrier, and nobody wants to enact common carrier, because of for example spammers).

We've gotten where we are today by a deliberately vague and untested legal situation (net neutrality was never required by the FCC or IANA or anybody else, only vaguely agreed to by the various carriers), and it's usually always problematic when those finally get articulated.