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I think the intent behind net neutrality is not to prevent bundling but technical discrimination. Your ISP can bundle free Hulu with your data plan, as long as you can also get Netflix and Youtube at the same quality with no bandwidth throttling.

So as long as there is no technical discrimination and you can access and subscribe to other news sources, net neutrality is respected.




There's no such thing as a free Hulu.

If your ISP is taking a share of your subscription fee and giving it to Hulu, your subscription will cost more.


Yup, that's precisely the idea. The grandparent was concerned that this masked price increase (for Hulu or for NYT) is a breach of net neutrality.


I've noticed a lot of discussions about net neutrality are actually about other things like that.

In non-technical circles net neutrality has become a catch-all term for improving speed, lowering cost, and otherwise regulating ISPs.

I doubt the narrow technical definition will survive.




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