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    "In 2013 ISP's were not abusing their power" Most people would beg to differ. If anything, their abuse of power has gone unopposed for far longer then that. Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 11:13
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    In 2013, NetFlix wasn't consuming as much bandwidth as it does today, and ISP are not allowed to enforce NetFlix to pay a fee or be unavailable to their customers actually. If you're a netflix user, would you switch ISP¨every 6 moths to follow netflix ? (That's one in many, google has the same kind of bandwith usage proportion for ISP, the same principle arise). That's why net neutrality is important, to prevent ISP to select who is allowed to be seen by peoples. (More or less the same discussion exist in France) Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 12:35
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    There was such a big push to put these regulations in place in the first place precisely because the ISPs were abusing their power back in 2013. They had started doing exactly the types of things people had feared they might do, and that was part of what helped build sufficient support to get these regulations put in place to begin with. It wasn't (just) out of fear of what might happen, it was a direct response to what had already happened. Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 13:48
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    "In 2013 ISP's were not abusing their power" Actually, it was the '90s, when we as consumers could choose our ISPs and hold them directly accountable with our dollars. Commented Jul 2, 2017 at 16:15
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    @Tensibai Netflix does not consume an isp's bandwidth, it is the isp's customers and what they do that consumes the bandwidth. It is easy to blame netflix because they are so popular but it should be remembered that if netflix was not around then the traffic would just go to another streaming service such as amazon, hulu or youtube. It is such a shame that a company gets blamed for the traffic when it is the consumers who chose to use it. Commented Jul 13, 2017 at 12:17
  • @JoeW I'm doing the exact opposite to blaming Netflix, I'm saying ISP can't select which traffic they allow actually and that is a good thing. Netflix is just an example of provider which can be impacted and someone being a customer of Netflix would have to choose his/her ISP according to this which is a bad thing IMHO. Commented Jul 13, 2017 at 12:37