[Rpm] [Starlink] [Bloat] [LibreQoS] net neutrality back in the news

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 08:24:13AM +0200, Sebastian Moeller via Starlink wrote:
> 	[SM] In the EU we have this as a continuous lobbying effort by big incumbent ISPs (a move to have the large content providers (CAPs) shoulder their "fair" share of the cost of modernizing the networks*), why this flys with at least some EU politicians is that the intended payees of this scheme are all located outside the EU and hence will have little support by the EU citizenry... (The latter is IMHO not fully undeserved either, the days of "do no evil" are long behind us and big tech often forgets that we are all in this together, but I digress). In the EU one of these days such an effort might actually succeed, as much as I dislike this.

And then the local incumbent uses that line of argument to arm-twist
all the smaller ISPs to pay them for traffic into their network...
(and calling up fees well above normal market rates for "transit").

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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