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the definition Wikipedia provides

"Net neutrality (also network neutrality or Internet neutrality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of communication.

At its simplest, network neutrality is the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally.[20] According to Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu: "Network neutrality is best defined as a network design principle. The idea is that a maximally useful public information network aspires to treat all content, sites, and platforms equally"."

Both Wikipedia and Tim Wu's definition seem to be pretty clear about treating all data equally. Prioritizing a certain type of traffic like VoIP over bittorrent would indeed be a violation of both wiki's and Wu's definition. And prioritizing the owner's packets over the guests would be a violation as well. Does this wikipedia article need a correction?



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