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New research shows that, post net neutrality, internet providers are slowing down your streaming
Have you ever noticed web content performing poorly out of the blue? Video footage becomes blurry. Web pages take longer to load. If so, your internet service provider might be slowing down your data on purpose. It’s known as “throttling,” and it’s a way for a provider to ease congested network traffic. But when one type of network traffic—say, video streaming—is throttled more than another, this is called differentiation. And according to Dave Choffnes, assistant professor of computer and information science at Northeastern, differentiation is also “what most people would refer to as a net neutrality violation.”
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And nobody is even remotely surprised.
The notion that regulation hurts competition is a bullshit one. It's these regulations that are meant to encourage competition and avoid outright monopolies from controlling a single resource - because this is exactly what the ISP landscape looks like in the US.