<story><title>Amazon Sidewalk</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?node=21328123011</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bijant</author><text>This is a blatant attempt at using their market power to gain a dominant position in IoT connectivity by creating a parallel Network where Net Neutrality does not apply. If this succeeds, only Amazon approved devices will be allowed on this global Network connecting only to aws provided services thereby establishing a monopoly on non-cellular IoT connectivity.
After Apples recent move in the same direction with their „find my“ mesh network of apple devices being used to introduce a whole new mode of operation to support their Air Tags the Question of Net Neutrality has to be extended from just ISPs to Dominant Platforms that have the ability to create derivative Mesh-Networks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiofih</author><text>I’m not sure a parallel can be drawn to the Find My network. That one is purely designed for location tracking in an anonymous way, and does not have the ability to transfer data between devices or any other type of tracking.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Sidewalk</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?node=21328123011</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bijant</author><text>This is a blatant attempt at using their market power to gain a dominant position in IoT connectivity by creating a parallel Network where Net Neutrality does not apply. If this succeeds, only Amazon approved devices will be allowed on this global Network connecting only to aws provided services thereby establishing a monopoly on non-cellular IoT connectivity.
After Apples recent move in the same direction with their „find my“ mesh network of apple devices being used to introduce a whole new mode of operation to support their Air Tags the Question of Net Neutrality has to be extended from just ISPs to Dominant Platforms that have the ability to create derivative Mesh-Networks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>contravariant</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t help but feel that this is only a net neutrality issue because we&amp;#x27;ve already given up on letting people freely choose what kind of mesh-networks (if any) their devices get to participate in.</text></comment>