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ISPs and Their Triple-Dipping (Why Net Neutrality Still Matters a Lot)

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Summary: There's an effort to weaken the Internet by essentially charging Net users to get connected, profiting from their personal data, and then charging every Web site on top of that; it is being portrayed as a solution to a problem despite being a problem in its own right

THE video above deals with an ongoing problem, which is further exacerbated by rogue and corrupt EU officials. Who are they working for? Former employers? Themselves? The public?



The short story is, some "revolving doors" masters (like Mr. Breton) want to lecture us on matters of fairness, allowing ISPs to not just sell our data to advertisers but to also double-dip*, accumulating fees upstream (from site operators) and downstream (from households and businesses). As insane as this may sound, some people agree with them, based on bogus, false, phony narratives. It was covered in Indian media, which conspicuously omitted Microsoft from this bogus lobby term, "Big Tech" (promoted by Microsoft lobbyists to distract from Microsoft's unique crimes). Just to be clear, it's not about GAFAM and Netflix paying ISPs or being asked to pay ISPs; it's about those ISPs getting more and more power; they can later charge any site, even Gemini capsules, to relay traffic to visitors. It would destroy what the Net -- not just the Web -- stands for.

What do "Elite" voices say? They present the abusers as victims of their own success. This important subject is covered in "Elite"-run media, stating: "In the middle is Amazon, which has over-invested in e-commerce and expanded too far, crushing its cashflow and returns. Mr Bezos, who remains executive chairman, owns less than 15% of the firm’s voting rights, so he has to be at least somewhat responsive to investors. Apple and Microsoft are at the benign end of the spectrum. Both firms are older, no longer have founders with controlling stakes and operate on the principle of one share, one vote. Both listen to outsiders. In 2013 Tim Cook, Apple’s boss, sat down for dinner with Carl Icahn, a fiery investor, and took on board his request to return money to shareholders through buybacks. In 2014 Microsoft invited an activist investor, Mason Morfit, onto its board. The two firms have performed the best of the big five this year."

Microsoft is notably absent from any real scrutiny; this is consistent with this publication's bias. "Microsoft is anything but benign," an associate noted in relation to this piece. ___________ * Our basic common sense has long indicated that attacks on the Web (or the Net at large) will ride the wave of 'shrinkflation'. ISPs too rush to exploit "inflation" for price gouging. They deliver less value for a higher price and expect to be paid more based on creative story-telling (like fairy tales regarding capacity limits and why they're unable to spend federal budget actually improving the infrastructure, even when taxpayers are paying for it; stock buybacks are embezzlement and misuse of public funds). Here in the UK, some ISPs now infiltrate or eavesdrop on personal conversations for sensitive information (this has been done with DPI techniques for at least 1.5 decades by BT), then sell that to data brokers (surveillance partners), in effect profiting by harming the dignity of the clients and harming them financially (e.g. discrimination in insurance policies). On top of that, it is important to note that all those connected to the Internet have already paid for the service which they are receiving and that what is happening here is a push for some very large ISPs with a large team of lawyers to get paid twice for the same service which has already been paid for (hence the term 'double-dip'; it's triple if one counts the data brokers because they get additional money this way).

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