Netflix Must Die! And Hulu and YouTube Too!


Net neutrality — the notion that broadband-internet providers shouldn't be allowed to prioritize, deprioritize, throttle or otherwise affect the content flowing through their pipes — is back in the news.

Verizon has been in court arguing against the FCC's Open Internet Order of 2010, which declared that "Fixed broadband providers may not unreasonably discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic over a consumer's broadband internet access service." The FCC's rationale for imposing the rule, it said at the time, was to prevent "gatekeepers [from] limiting innovation and communication through the network."

Should the internet self-regulate? Or should the FCC have a say? Even within the content-creation and content-delivery industries, opinions vary widely — often within the same company, or even within the same person.

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