First, I hope everyone has had an enjoyable Easter, if you celebrate it, and an enjoyable weekend if you do not. Now for the thing I actually want to mention here.
This past week, Netflix, one of the companies that pushed so hard for the FCC to take control of Internet access for the US in the name of Net Neutrality (which is actually counter to any one entity controlling access to the Internet, but that's not the point today) and make rules so-called fast lanes and discriminate throttling have admitted they have been throttling their own customers. For years. If you had an AT&T or Verizon connection when you tried to stream something from Netflix, the stream would be throttled down. Of course Netflix is just thinking of its paying customers, trying to help them from exceeding data caps, unlike those ISPs that were trying to keep network congestion down for their paying customers. Netflix was thinking of its customers so much that it neglected to tell any of them they were getting impaired service, or AT&T and Verizon.
Some would take an opportunity like this to say that one should not trust any companies, but I vehemently disagree. You can indeed trust companies, to do what is best for them. The question is what the company's operating philosophy is. Every decision a company makes will be to increase revenue and/or decrease costs, but there are many ways this can be achieved, and it is the philosophy that determines which choice is made.
Remember that; you can trust that the best decision is always being made. Just wonder about why that decision is considered the best.
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