Comment by nabla9
7 years ago
Net neutrality is the principle that _Internet service providers_ should treat all Internet communications equally. Cloudfare is not an ISP.
Web service like Hacker News don't have any obligation to provide everyone equal access to their site. Cloudfare works for the web services. As a web service provider, you don't have, nor should you have, any obligation to provide equal access to anyone.
I understand the difference between an ISP privileging network packets based on service and a CDN / content provider privileging / filtering traffic for their customers, however the result for the end user is very similar. Also, Cloudflare is much bigger than most ISPs and already serves a sizeable portion of the Internet traffic, so I don’t think they should get a free pass regarding this issue just because formally they’re not an ISP.
> Hacker News don't have any obligation to provide everyone equal access to their site.
i disagree. Net neutrality to me also means that a site like HN should serve all customers coming to the site the same, and not discriminate against TOR users or VPN users, or users from a certain IP range, or users with different/non-standard user-agent headers.
> Net neutrality to me also means that
I don't see how individual inserting his own meaning to well defined terms adds anything positive to the.
If you encounter term you don't understand, you look it up and don't try to make up your own definition. There is no disagreement of what the term means in a way you insist.
That is definitely not what "Net neutrality" means. It might be an admirable goal, but it needs a different name.