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eel on Sept 19, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: FCC to Mandate Net Neutrality for the Web

A corollary is that this may make ___ over HTTP more popular.

wmf on Sept 19, 2009 [–]

Actually net discrimination makes ___ over HTTP more popular because then you can hope that the magic black box prioritizes your traffic rather than penalizes it. In a neutral net, tunneling your protocol over HTTP or port 80 doesn't help.

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