Reply #32: The ISP's (all the ones I've worked with, at least) have been traffic shaping since the 90's.

[boppers]

They didn't have to explain it to their users, and nobody gave them grief when they shut out spammers, malware, and other bad sites, or sold higher quality links for videoconferencing, and nobody even really *noticed* this issue, or turned it into a political cause, until somebody discovered that a popular file sharing tool was being throttled down to reduce traffic loads. I'm also not defending the destruction of something that *never existed*, I'm talking about why creating it is a bad idea.

WRT Obama, I don't speak for Obama, from what I understand, though, the administration policy is for freedom of speech on the internet, but not freedom of spamming. Net Neutrality is pro-speech *and* pro-spammer.