[cooperation-wg] Big telcos and net neutrality

Thanks for this.

It seems to me that they aren't so much asking for an end to net neutrality,
as for some mechanism to make platforms such as Google and Facebook pay for
the traffic that they put on the network.

At present, we, users, pay directly for the infrastructure that carries the
traffic if it is provided by telcos, and indirectly (through the
monetization of our personal data) if it is provided by a CDN funded by a
platform.

We pay for the services provided by the platforms through monetization of
pour personal data. However, the services we receive cost much less than the
value of the data we provide, which is why Google and Facebook have huge
profits.

Maybe it makes sense for some of those profits to be redistributed to cover
the costs of the infrastructure that we are increasingly relying on.

Best,
Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cooperation-wg [mailto:cooperation-wg-bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf
> Of Johan Helsingius
> Sent: Friday, 18 February 2022 14:36
> To: cooperation-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: [cooperation-wg] Big telcos and net neutrality
> 
> I am sure many of you have seen this.
> 
> https://www.internetnews.me/2022/02/14/big-telcos-want-to-break-net-
> neutrality-in-eu/
> 
> My first reaction was to laugh at the irony, but then I remembered
> that those guys still have a huge lobbying power. Is this something
> we want to discuss and address in the group (webinar, communique,
> whatever)?
> 
> 	Julf
> 
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