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He's not talking about DOT road/rail/air transit. He's talking about IP transit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_transit

It's the most basic and fundamental service provided by an ISP, and should be the only service ISPs can provide, to prevent the conflicts of interest that make net neutrality regulations a necessity. When ISPs are an endpoint for traffic rather than just a conduit for it, they have a financial incentive to try to force their customers to use their content services over external content providers.



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