<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>ColinDabritz</author><text>&amp;quot;And he promised a series of measures to ensure the new paid prioritization practices are done fairly and don&amp;#x27;t harm consumers.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I have a measure in mind that won&amp;#x27;t harm consumers. Don&amp;#x27;t allow ISPs to discriminate against users regarding their already paid for internet traffic based on what they request. (Gee that sounds a lot like net neutrality.)&lt;p&gt;Anything less is open for abuse.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps &amp;quot;Discrimination&amp;quot; is a good word to tar this with, because it is. It&amp;#x27;s discrimination against companies, but it&amp;#x27;s also discrimination against users based on their tastes, preferences, and possibly socioeconomic status.&lt;p&gt;To say nothing of de-facto censorship issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>natdempk</author><text>This seems like a valuable approach. If we could come up with examples of services like nonprofits that would be unable to pay and have their services negatively affected I think that could make people care about this issue. Maybe if we focused on things like Khan Academy, where their content is largely video. I think in that case its clear their money would be better spent developing a larger knowledge base instead of paying extortion money to ISPs, and it might strike a chord with average users.</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>ColinDabritz</author><text>&amp;quot;And he promised a series of measures to ensure the new paid prioritization practices are done fairly and don&amp;#x27;t harm consumers.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I have a measure in mind that won&amp;#x27;t harm consumers. Don&amp;#x27;t allow ISPs to discriminate against users regarding their already paid for internet traffic based on what they request. (Gee that sounds a lot like net neutrality.)&lt;p&gt;Anything less is open for abuse.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps &amp;quot;Discrimination&amp;quot; is a good word to tar this with, because it is. It&amp;#x27;s discrimination against companies, but it&amp;#x27;s also discrimination against users based on their tastes, preferences, and possibly socioeconomic status.&lt;p&gt;To say nothing of de-facto censorship issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mwsherman</author><text>CDNs are essentially identical (technologically and economically) to what Netflix bought from Comcast: &lt;a href=&quot;http://clipperhouse.com/2014/05/07/what-netflix-bought-from-comcast-is-a-cdn/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;clipperhouse.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;what-netflix-bought-from-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;To my mind, I can’t imagine a rule that describes a fast lane that doesn’t also describe a CDN.</text></comment>