[ale] Republicans’ “Internet Freedom Act” would wipe out net neutrality | Ars Technica

[Jim Kinney]

It's one thing to contact my ISP and request they block or throttle
connections. It's a totally different thing to have that choice made solely
by the ISP for the business reason of wringing more money from me.

ISPs can throttle connections without customers permission when a network
attack is underway. The FCC new ruling doesn't bar this.

The Republican definition of freedom generally refers only to owners and
never to users.
On Mar 7, 2015 4:45 AM, "Michael Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> From the point of view of systems and network administrators, what are
> everyone's thoughts on this?
>
> On one hand the FCC's rules promote equal traffic, but on the other hand
> it is quite necessary to be able to control the network lest quality of
> service degrade. The new FCC rules would seem to imply that all providers
> must create very large and very redundant links more so than exist in
> today's infrastructure. Yet that in itself has the power to be used in
> order to amplify e.g. DDoS attacks.
>
> I know that I for one rely on the ability to report problems and have the
> ISP act to block the bad traffic (which is almost never solely directed at
> me, and almost never originating from my ISP's network).
>
>
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