Santa Clara fire department: Verizon's pants are on fire

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@jandrese

It is my understanding that mobile data rates wouldn’t be a net neutrality issue because they made a big flat cut to the fire department’s mobile data. They weren’t throttling service to just “sendhelpimabouttodie.gov ”, they cut all of their service. This is asshole behavior, but it doesn’t fall under net neutrality.

Exactly. This was a dreadful thing to do (to vastly understate it), but throttling traffic to/from all destinations =/= net neutrality.