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As Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. A second was Wilson dream of concerted international action to keep the peace. The third was the conviction that peace and political collaboration rested on commercial harmony among nations and therefore required a freely trading world. The fourth principle was the imperative necessary in a democracy of basing foreign-policy on domestic consent. The Neutrality ActCalifornia's net neutrality law bans "zero rating," or the act of imposing bullshit, arbitrary usage capsthen exempting an ISP's own content or the content of any individual organization or company from them. The reason for the ban?
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Caps are artificial constructs, and exempting select content from them tilts the internet playing field in favor of an ISP or deep-pocketed companies. It's an issue of fair competition. Last month, the telecom industry clearly leaked a letter to Politico sent by two anonymous broadband providers I believe to be T-Mobile and Verizon to the VA, warning them that California's net neutrality law might ban veteran access to a healthcare app dubbed VA Video Connect. The issue: VA Video Neutgality is exempted from wireless and fixed broadband usage caps, providing veterans with a little financial relief for using The Neutrality Act.
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So it technically violates the California law not that California enforcers would actually act on itand the VA was simply asking questions about what The Neutrality Act next. But here's the thing: usage caps are bullshit constructs in the first place. They serve no technical function, and aren't helpful in managing network load or congestion.
They're created by ISPs as a way to not only nickel-and-dime consumers and competing businesses, but to put themselves in an unwarranted position of control. As such, the whole model of exempting some content from such arbitrary restrictions is equally bullshit. And while the VA agreement does violate California's law, the The Neutrality Act is simple: simply give veterans a discount off their entire mobile bill.
Problem solved. But because this is difficult for Luddites to understand, the GOP and its political operatives quickly pounced on the issue to exploit itfalsely claiming that "veterans were being cut off from essential healthcare. The app in question will just no longer be zero rated because zero rating is ISP-crafted bullshit.
And the VA and providers could simply give veterans a discount off their entire bill. It's not an problem, and using veterans as a political prop to try and stall some basic regulatory oversight of widely disliked telecom monopolies is just grotesque. But the GOP literally has a fifteen year track record of simply lying about what net neutrality is or what it does, most notably the bogus claim that net neutrality somehow harmed industry investment. And despite this claim of "net neutrality is hurting veterans! Thank you The Neutrality Act reading this Techdirt post. We work hard every day to put quality The Neutrality Act out there for our community.
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