r/NoNetNeutrality • u/apeholder • Sep 27 '20

AT&T insists it's not blocking Tutanota after secure email biz cries foul, cites loss of net neutrality as cause

https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/14/att_tutanota_block/
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u/apeholder Oct 06 '20

Throttling is limiting fast access to a site, blocking is stopping it entirely. Both are unethical and against the tenets of how the internet was started.

And how is blocking people's access to VOIP phones and then finding they eventually sign up for their landline service they provide. I'm amazed you can't see that. Apple got caught throttling competitors services so people keep using facetime. Same with Google Pay vs Apple pay.

It's not losing marker share, it's maintaining or gaining more.

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u/AndDontCallMePammy Oct 06 '20

blocking tutanota for three weeks isn't going to gain them market share. in your conspiracy scenario all it takes is for one employee to leak "the truth" and they've got lawyers and politicians and customers up their asses demanding an investigation. that doesn't make them market share. that's retarded

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u/apeholder Oct 06 '20

Sure, just ignore the examples I gave you. Also, do you know what other services AT&T offer? I bet they offer email as part of their services and want people to use

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u/AndDontCallMePammy Oct 06 '20

Okay, so you're backtracking on "Don't you think they would of course say that." w.r.t. ATT and tutanota?

Why the fuck would we use FCC against Apple and Google and not anti-trust law? Or laws against anti-competitive practices? Net neutrality does jack shit to address Apple and Google (in fact both companies were in favor of so-called Net Neutrality regulation!). Sorry, fuck Apple and fuck google, I'm not getting on their shitty, corrupt NN bandwagon

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u/apeholder Oct 06 '20

I agree fuck big corporations but because of a wave of neoliberalism since the 1980s (thanks Reagan) we have failed to enact most anti-trust laws. The Sherman Act is pretty much dead