> Providers of internet access to end-users shall not discriminate between functionally equivalent services and applications.
This means they can still throttle torrents, right?
This means they can still throttle torrents, right?
a) Reasonable,
b) transparent,
c) non-discriminatory of that traffic type,
d) there is temporary and exceptional network congestion,
e) measure is not be maintained longer than necessary.
If all those are true they may throttle torrents. A key word here is transparent, since few ISP even admit that they throttle traffic.
I think the definition will also include the question of competition between the traffic streams. Youtube and Netflix are competitors, whereas an E-Mail Service and a Gaming Service isn't.
Net Neutrality should not mean we have to build the infrastructure that can faithfully execute DDOS attacks. Now, if we want to build the infrastructure to let all internet users stream 4K Video 24/7, is a whole other question...