Net Neutrality Wars

Competitor Comcast got slapped with a lawsuit for pulling exactly this kind of stunt last year (but the trial is still ongoing).

It’s hard to tell how the chips will fall – it mostly depends on the convoluted US legal system and the (dubious) capacity of US broadband users to pressure their ISPs into neutrality.

Putting aside the obvious questions such as “Why not just build in more bandwidth?”, it’s easy to predict, however, that the outcome of this battle will have implications for the whole of the Internet, not just the stars-and-stripes-coloured bits.