More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to kill net neutrality
1. Should a school or workplace be allowed to block specific websites? Why shouldn&#x27;t ISPs be allowed to?<p>2. Should cable providers be forced to distribute 100% of channels? Why should we apply a different standard to a different protocol?<p>3. Should toll-free telephone number be banned?<p>4. Should ISPs charge for data used to check your balance or account statement? Should phone companies bill the minutes used to call their customer services?<p>5. Should ISPs be allowed to cache arbitrary content on their servers to reduce their loads (e.g., Netflix movies), and distribute the savings to their users?<p>6. Should a taxi driver be allowed not to serve specific neighborhoods, or should they be forced to serve 100% of neighborhoods?<p>7. Should posting a letter to someone in the same city cost the same as posting a letter to someone in a different country?<p>8. Should ISPs that implement their own proprietary protocol as an alternative to the Internet be forced to be neutral as well?<p>9. Should restaurants be forced to serve both Pepsi and Coca-Cola?<p>10. Should Netflix be able to reduce your subscription price when used through a specific ISP?<p>11. Should toll roads be allowed?<p>12. Should a workplace be able to reimburse bandwidth fees associated with the use of their VPN?<p>13. Should web hosts (e.g., Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku, etc) be neutral as well? Should Amazon charge the same fees to all of their customers (including themselves)?<p>14. What should be done about small startups that can&#x27;t handle all the incoming traffic? Should some other regulation subsidize their hosting cost so that they can compete with larger competitors?<p>15. How many new laws and regulations will be required (if they don&#x27;t already exist) just to address the above examples? Wouldn&#x27;t these laws and regulations only make it more difficult for startups to emerge and compete with the so-called monopolies?