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Stephen Downes

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One of the things about ISP traffic shaping is that it creates an artificial scarcity, and therefore, a market. And everybody who touches that traffic - from your home provider to the backbone to wifi hotspot providers, coffee shops, hotels and the rest - has a part of that market. So what they begin to do, naturally, is to charge companies - Google, Facebook, etc., to NOT throttle and slow down their signals. Of course, they don't want you, the consumer, to know about all of these backroom deals, because if you know, you might not go to the sites that are paying for a speed premium. The net effect is to route consumers toward commercial content, and to essentially block free and open content. Hence the issue about openness. Related: new NetNeutrality.ca launches.

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