<story><title>FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-plan-to-allow-for-paid-priority-on-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hpaavola</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get this whole net neautrality discussion that is going on in US (and maybe somewhere else, just haven&amp;#x27;t paid attention).&lt;p&gt;Consumers pay based on speed of their connection. If ISP feels like the consumers are not paying enough, raise the prices.&lt;p&gt;Service providers (not ISPs, but the ones who run servers that consumers connect to) pay based on speed of their connection. If the ISP feels like service providers are not paying enough, raise the prices.&lt;p&gt;Why in the earth there is a need for slow&amp;#x2F;fast lanes and data caps?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m four years old. So please keep that in mind when explaing this to me. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&amp;gt; Why in the earth there is a need for slow&amp;#x2F;fast lanes&lt;p&gt;Because once the middleman has established himself as a monopoly and everybody &lt;i&gt;has&lt;/i&gt; to go through him with no alternative, he can make bank by having everybody pay more.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; and data caps?&lt;p&gt;Lets the ISP oversubscribe even more and extract even more money out of the system without providing any additional value whatsoever.</text></comment>
<story><title>FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-plan-to-allow-for-paid-priority-on-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hpaavola</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get this whole net neautrality discussion that is going on in US (and maybe somewhere else, just haven&amp;#x27;t paid attention).&lt;p&gt;Consumers pay based on speed of their connection. If ISP feels like the consumers are not paying enough, raise the prices.&lt;p&gt;Service providers (not ISPs, but the ones who run servers that consumers connect to) pay based on speed of their connection. If the ISP feels like service providers are not paying enough, raise the prices.&lt;p&gt;Why in the earth there is a need for slow&amp;#x2F;fast lanes and data caps?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m four years old. So please keep that in mind when explaing this to me. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eloff</author><text>You need to think like an evil cable monopoly. It&amp;#x27;s a great thing because then they can charge consumers for their broadband service and charge content companies as well. A whole new source of revenue. And they can keep on jacking up the prices whenever they want, because they&amp;#x27;ve got the customers of the content company hostage and can ransom them for nearly any level that would still let the content company turn a small profit.</text></comment>