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What Net Neutrality Might Mean in Practice

Discussions about Net Neutrality are oftentimes hard to follow, mostly because it is not always clear what exactly the concept ‘Net Neutrality’ means. That’s why it’s helpful to have a concrete example, and as such is offered by a situation across the pond: recently British newspapers have reported that several large ISPs in the UK have threatened to shutdown access to videos the BBC offers online, because these videos could take up too much bandwidth. They will shutdown access to the BBC videos, unless of course, the BBC pays the ISPs. What is forgotten is that customers of the ISPs already have paid for the use of this bandwidth.