On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us> wrote: > On 9/19/2012 2:12 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@iki.fi> wrote: >>>> >>>> FWIW, when preferential content access is tied to ISP instead of >>>> hardware brand, Mozilla has gone as far as sending letters to D.C. >>>> against such tying. (Yes, preferred access by HW vendor isn't the same >>>> as by ISP, but I think it's in the ballpark or at least near the >>>> ballpark as far as the Mission goes.) >>> >>> Do you have links to this. That would be very helpful. >> >> 2009: >> https://blog.mozilla.org/gen/2009/10/19/mozilla-signs-pro-net-neutrality-letter-to-fcc/ >> 2010: >> http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/net-neutrality-comments-to-the-fcc/ > > I don't believe these statements are relevant to the question. > > Net neutrality is about ISPs blocking or throttling content. The danger is > that the ISP can close the internet and coerce website owners into bad > relationships. This is a threat to the internet as a whole. Mozilla has and > should continue to fight against this form of paywall internet. > > Content access is about a server owner selling users content through an ISP. > The danger is that popular websites might have the power to coerce ISPs into > paying for popular content. This is a business problem, but isn't really a > threat to the internet in general and is not something that I think Mozilla > should take a stand on or try to prevent.
Indeed. I think this is a somewhat different issue than net neutrality. With net neutrality there's a middle party trying to build a business model by disrupting the traffic between a user and the content the user is accessing. Here there's a content provider choosing to distribute its content using different policies to different groups of people. The latter is much more similar to how some content providers choose to only distribute content to people from a particular country. It's annoying as hell, but it's not a net neutrality issue as I see it. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
