[vivekd]

>Do you want an Internet provider charging you more for using your preferred streaming service over using their video streaming service? In a world without net neutrality that's what you will get. You will end up paying for the internet like we currently pay for cable channels. Websites will be packaged into bundles and if you want something from another bundle... To bad you have to buy the entire bundle.

Can't they already do this now? Imagine an ISP provides a browser or even a browser plugin as a part of their service and certain websites will not work properly unless you are using that particular browser.

Imagine they give discounts to customers that use preferred sites over other sites.

I don't think they can do much more than this with net neutrality and they, should they wish, already have the power to do so now. It seems like the reason they don't do this is because there isn't much motivation for them to do so, artificially restricting their services would cause them to lose money to providers that don't artificially restrict services.

[killbrad]

No, they cannot do that now because of net neutrality.

[vivekd]

But what rule or law exactly, I don't see anything in the internet freedom act of 2009 or anything else that would prevent them from taking these steps. Is this whole net neutrality debate a case of legislators not understanding technology and technologists not understanding legislation.