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Correct, a place where innovative companies like Netflix were blocked and throttled by ISPs due to conflicts with their legacy business models.

I don't know how anyone could honestly say that taking away an important consumer protection is going to help innovation, outside of innovative new billing practices by ISPs.



This is OT but I don't see the innovation of Netflix. It's TV on the Internet. They were actually a more innovative, or at least weirder, business when they were mailing DVDs around.

It's like Russ Hanneman (Mark Cuban, right?) on Silicon Valley. We can take this thing called the "radio" and put it on this new thing called the "Internet". Not as mind blowing as he believes.


But in reference to the original comment, it was in the U.S. that Netflix succeeded, though it was supposedly stifled here. It just makes no sense.




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