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by sddfd 3124 days ago
Thanks for your comment. I agree it is important to distinguish between title II and net neutrality.

However, I fail to see how the power of Google & Facebook to "curate" the internet is an argument against net neutrality.

To me it seems that if ISPs are not bound by net neutrality, then the power of big companies will be even greater.

Just another example is a startup competing with Netflix. Without net neutrality, one most likely has to buy a premium Netflix packet from the ISP on top of the Netflix subscription to be able to stream the whole month in high quality. You can look at Portugal, where at least on mobile such packages are already available. Now I don't see how a startup can compete, if its users also have to buy another premium package from their ISPs to use the startups services (in addition to the Premium package the already pay to be able to watch Netflix).