"Stanford law professor and net neutrality expert Professor Barbara van Schewick has filed a study with the FCC (pdf) that insists T-Mobile's Binge On program clearly violates net neutrality, "harms competition, innovation and free speech" and is "likely illegal." Across 51 pages, Schewick offers more than a dozen reasons why she's come to this conclusion regarding the program, which throttles all video services that touch the T-Mobile network to 1.5 Mbps, regardless of whether the content is streamed or directly downloaded.
"A core principle of net neutrality is that ISPs should not pick winners and losers online by favoring some applications over others," notes the study. "But that’s exactly what Binge On does. Customers have a greater incentive to watch videos that are included in Binge On than those that are excluded. As a result, providers in the program can be more successful than providers that T-Mobile leaves out.""