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&gt; They now also want to collect revenue by charging large content providers fees for access to their network<p>Isn&#x27;t what they are advocating for the exact opposite of net neutrality? Everyone&#x27;s connection is saturated, but they argue that because they are a large content provider they should get special treatment and not need to pay for direct access. Smaller companies are equally affected during peak hours, but they would need to pay for that same privilege? If not, what is too small?<p>There seems to be a trend of adding &quot;free peering&quot; into the net neutrality debate. Unless you&#x27;re carrying equal bit-miles, free shouldn&#x27;t even enter into the equation. If data flows unequally, money should flow the other direction.<p>I think a lot of companies are leveraging the current hate for cable companies to get out of properly engineering their infrastructure. People have leased lines, built out additional datacenters and paid for colos around the world for years and it was never &quot;extortion&quot; until a popular company twisted the definition of net neutrality a bit so they wouldn&#x27;t need to build their own datacenters.