Battle for the Internet
I fully support the net neutrality argument, it seems like a no brainer to me. However I find it interesting that companies like Netflix and Amazon who heavily differentiate in which devices you can have which video quality[1] will then argue that ISPs shouldn&#x27;t be able to differentiate which services should have which transport quality.<p>The situation seems completely analogous to me. I&#x27;m paying my ISP for a connection and it thinks it should be able to restrict which services I use on top of it. I&#x27;m paying a content provider for some shows&#x2F;movies and it thinks it should be able to restrict which device I use to view them.<p>The argument for regulation also seems the same. ISPs don&#x27;t have effective competition because physical infrastructure is a natural monopoly. Content providers also don&#x27;t have effective competition because content access is also a natural monopoly because of network effects (right now there are 2-3 relevant players <i>worldwide</i>).<p>[1] Both of them heavily restrict which devices can access 4K content. Both of them make it very hard to have HD from non-standard devices. Netflix even makes it hard to get 1080p on anything that isn&#x27;t the absolute mainstream (impossible on Linux for example).