On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 10:28:57 +1300, Simon Green wrote:
An ISP is allowing you unmetered content to a set of sites for a set fee.
Can you say “conflict of interest”? As the Internet was originally designed, those in control of the network itself only had the job of passing bits around, it was none of their business what those bits represented. All the smarts is at the end points. And in particular, those wanting to create new services do not need permission from the owners of the network to do so. (Think how Facebook, Google, YouTube, Netflix etc got started.) But once you have these cosy deals between the ISPs and the providers of the existing endpoint services, that puts newcomers, wanting to offer new services, at a disadvantage. In other words, it stifles competition.