justin_o_guy2 wrote on 01/24/18 at 14:23:42:Think about it - if your comcast delivery had its way, why wouldn't they throttle sites they weren't making as much profit off of..
The service Provider is offering a service to a consumer. The CONSUMER is paying the provider. If I NEED or WANT a package delivered, I PAY a delivery service to Get it Here. They don't decide to drag their feet based on what they get from the manufacturer or shipper.
I know, you got NOTHING.
well they did, then they were sued, which is what started this whole thing with getting it written down as a regulation. they've even denied service to internet services like Bit Torrent.
https://techcrunch.com/2009/12/22/comcast-settles-bandwidth-throttling-lawsui...https://www.wired.com/2007/11/comcast-sued-ov/and so has Verizon
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/186576-verizon-caught-throttling-netfli..."They don't decide to drag their feet based on what they get from the manufacturer or shipper."
and judging from the articles above, they actually have in the past, to put pressure on that "manufacturer or shipper" to pay them to make that "manufacturer or shipper's" customers put pressure on them or drop them completely for their OWN alternative product.
all that lead to the FCC doing that whole title 2 thing.
now in an ideal world, competition would be the answer, and laws and regulations or even deregulations in the right areas maybe, encouraging competition and growth would be the better answer, but our telecomm industry has been based on monopolies since they started with Ma' Bell