Is this worse than the pre-NN system where they would just throttle everything after 25GB/month with no exceptions?
If it's technically feasible not to limit the bandwidth for some services, it's technically feasible to at least reduce the throttling for everyone.
2) We're not in the NN system as it was repealed so the implicit idea in your post that the current system is from NN is false.
3) We wouldn't need NN though if we actually had anti-trust enforcement; zero-rating is a monopolistic practice. It's akin to having preferential treatment on rail lines so consumers can't get other's goods as easily.
well i guess everybody is entitled to their own opinion but i personally prefer the one that lets me use more data even though ideally i would be able to use more data for any online service and not just some of them.
>We're not in the NN system as it was repealed so the implicit idea in your post that the current system is from NN is false.
I definitely did not say the "current system" is from NN, and neither did the OP i was replying to.
"pre-NN" system is having a datacap where any additional bandwidth usage beyond that datacap is throttled or outright denied.
"current system" is having a datacap but certain services are not counted towards that datacap, and all other services are throttled or outright denied once the datacap is exceeded.
>We wouldn't need NN though if we actually had anti-trust enforcement; zero-rating is a monopolistic practice. It's akin to having preferential treatment on rail lines so consumers can't get other's goods as easily.
rail lines are not equivalent to ISP zero-rating.
Datacaps are a policy adopted by ISPs of treating bandwidth as a consumable resource when it is in fact not a consumable resource. Datacaps are idiotic and arbitrary[1] but they predate the FCC's decision to repeal net neutrality by at least half a decade.
Offering an exception to a datacap for a given service would be akin to the train being able to carry additional cargo beyond its capacity with no increased fuel consumption or inertia but only for a specific class of cargo.
[1] if ISPs actually cared about their stated goal of reducing network congestion then they would weight traffic based on overall network congestion so that consumers are incentivized to download more data during non-peak hours but i digress.