Trying to rethink #NetNeutrality and understand what exactly I think we should be going for. Understanding peering and how it's done led me away from support for pure net neutrality, it doesn't exist.

I think the way it should be framed is: ISPs should be making money from subscribers, when it starts monetizing peers it shifts their interest from serving you as a customer to making services their customers and serving you to them, which, ultimately, is not really what you're paying for.

Businesses will frame it as value-added, eg we are offering this video service at higher speeds for lower costs. I don't know how to dispute that. But the incentive for the ISP becomes to maintain and acquire new paid pipe agreements, the non-paid pipes are now inferior profit centers and ISPs will let them degrade, give them less attention.

What I am trying to say is, I don't think "net neutrality" actually exists, but I think the NN fight is for something else that is important but I don't know how to describe it succinctly or in a way that makes people care.