It seems to me that Google, Facebook etc. may be worried about being throttled, but surely there's a flip side of the coin where the ending of net neutrality could actually BENEFIT them and help them consolidate their position even further? That is if the new lighter regulations enable them to pay the ISPs for higher speed access that will make any new competitors (that can't afford such access) look unbearably slow by comparison. Is there some other motivation that's not been talked about?

It might seem like this is the end of the debate for now and we just have to wait and see how things develop in the new arena, but the new requirements as I understand it will call for the ISPs to be transparent about what they are throttling at least. We can keep an eye on that perhaps and look for cases of censorship by throttling.

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