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CableZL posted...

https://consumerist.com/2014/02/23/netflix
-agrees-to-pay-comcast-to-end-slowdown/

Net neutrality regulations came into play because multiple US ISPs were throttling traffic to Netflix. Netflix eventually paid money to those ISPs to get them to stop throttling traffic and then passed the cost of those payments down to Netflix subscribers by increasing the subscription fee.

The state of the internet is better in 2024 than it was in 2014 in that high fiber is much more prevalent in ISP networks. However, without net neutrality regulations in place, we're just trusting ISPs to not do that again.

Am I reading in that article that this wasn't covered by net neutrality rules that were in place at the time? Do the new rules that were just adopted or the ones that were discontinued in 2017 address peering issues like this?

Kyle1022 posted... Why are people posting in here about stuff that doesn't have anything to do with net neutrality, like data collection, privacy, and regional ISP monopolies/oligopolies?

You're right data privacy and collection has nothing to do with Net Neutrality. The argument though that we need Net Neutrality to protect against ISP throttling fuckery is in part because a lot of ISPs have a monopoly in their service area.