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> Net Equality would have likely perked up more interest.

yeah, marketing is nuanced like that and i think this distinction would have made a good difference.

net-favorism, anti-throttling, anti-discrimination, equal-access would have also done better, i think.



Anti-throttling is great. It's better rhetorically (who wants their data throttled?) and arguably clearer too, since that's what it comes down to in the end -- the ability for ISPs to throttle some content more than others.


No, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear that is a general bandwidth rate limit, which I think almost nobody has any problems with.

It doesn't correctly communicate that it's different rates for different target sites.


I can't think of a hot name, but net neutrality is fundamentally about preserving a free market of information.


You have to be careful about that, because there's nothing in net neutrality that prevents restricted data silos, censorship, takedowns; it's really only about forbidding a specific network management practice that allows ISPs to impose a time cost on sites and services they disapprove of.


While accurate, it's a little misleading to phrase it like this.

Imposing a significant time cost makes certain types of applications unusable.


Notice that "free market" is a contronym: concurrent market and unregulated market are opposite things here.


these are all better names than net neutrality.




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