International effect of net nutrality

[Tortanick]

assuming that net nutrality dosn't get passed into american law, and all the doomsday predictions are true, what would be the effects on countrys other than U.S.ofA.

[zipulrich]

You will all be assimilated. All your base will belong to us. I mean...
Huh?? :confused:

[oracle128]

I presume it would be a pretty simple effect - any traffic that doesn't go via the US is unchanged. Anything that does will be affected exponentially to what you guys experience, due to the distance involved; and even more so if those external countries also implement their own traffic prioritisation.

[Tortanick]

You're looking at it too simply oracle. You could, for example see companies reloacintg servers outside the USA. Nothing happens in isolation.

[oracle128]

I doubt it. For the major companies where this would actually be feasible, it wouldn't be efficient due to the greater physical distance required to reach the new servers - and it wouldn't even make a difference at all unless it's a US company who've relocated their servers overseas, when being accessed from a customer outside the US, if it doesn't go through a US backbone. That situation is unique enough that it would be nullified alone by the cost of moving servers.