What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.

  • ColeSloth
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    8 months ago

    That’s not what net neutrality does, and I’m disturbed by this being the number one comment.

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      8 months ago

      Are you talking about net neutrality in general, or a specific campaign that used the term? Net neutrality means all bits are equal. It does not matter where a bit is coming from, where it is going to or what it is part of.

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        8 months ago

        No portion of any net neutrality bill anywhere calls for hotspot data to not be capped by a cell carrier. It doesn’t eliminate any caps for anything at all. Net neutrality means they can’t change the speeds dependant on what sites you’re accessing and that they can’t block any sites, give free data to access some sites and not others, or put them behind a pay wall. It has nothing to do with general hot spot data caps, or cell phone data caps.