T-Mobile is Offering Customers Free Unlimited Pokemon Go Data Usage

[DefunctTheory]

A bit late, but...

This is as bad as throttling down bandwidth for certain applications or websites. Worse even, because it tricks consumers into thinking it's a good thing.

This is bad in several levels. For one, it means your internet usage is being spied on and analysed. Secondly, it's anti-competitive, because it provides a special advantage to only one product over others. It's like making your car insurance free, but only if your car is a toyota.

Don't support this shit.

There's a fundamental difference between actively spying on your data, and special routing. Which isn't to say T-Mobile isn't spying on you, only that it's not really necessary.

And this really doesn't fall under the umbrella problem of Net Neutrality. It would be a problem if it was taking away from other services, or otherwise took something away from a competing service. Like if Microsoft payed to have Bing traffic sped up. Pokemon Go is in no direct competition with anyone. I'm struggling to think of how a data exemption for Pokemon Go is competitive to any other service.

 

[Denamic]

And this really doesn't fall under the umbrella problem of Net Neutrality.

It absolutely, 60000% does. If you treat one connection differently from another simply because it connects to a certain place, or because it transmits certain kinds of packets, Net Neutrality is broken. If you allow this kind of thing, if the majority of legislator does, Net Neutrality is dead, and we won't get it back.