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If net neutrality is axed I'm moving to Berlin to live on Max-Beer street. With HN throttled I'll need a new addiction.

[curiousgal]

HN is so fast I use it to test my internet issues. It’ll be hard to throttle it.

[epmaybe]

Additionally, why would any ISP throttle a site with as little traffic as HN?

Edit: I say "little" in comparison to the seriously high traffic sites like Netflix or Google.

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I'm imagining a situation where Susan Startuper wants her HN fix 20x a day just like everyone, but refuses to pay for the "Hacker Channel" subscription with her ISP. She still gets access but only at 128kb/s. In some areas there's just one ISP and it doesn't offer the Hacker Channel. DNS resolution of news.ycombinator.com fails for all of its customers.

Max-Beer street would start looking pretty good, especially if Max-HN was also available there. I'd be interested to know what, if any, effect the demise of net neutrality would have on American service providers with foreign customers.

[yebyen]

They're not doing it for bandwidth conservation, it's a way to extract rent from companies that are (already paying someone for) using the internet to reach their customers.