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Re:FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20 by mywittyname on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:51PM (#25259497)
Netflix finally acquiesced and paid ISPs (Verizon, AT&T, Cox) money to stop throttling their service. Though, this happened long before Pai took control of the FCC (~2014).

If you have one of those ISPs and Netflix, then you're paying your ISP twice: directly for the internet connection, and indirectly for the privilege of being able to use Netflix. This was literally the argument in support Net Neutrality, which ISPs said would never happen. It only took months for ISPs to capitalize.

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Re:FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20 by jakelazaroff on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:46PM (#25260031)
Wasn't that a peering agreement? IIRC, ISPs weren't throttling Netflix per se — Netflix was just paying them for direct access to their last-mile networks, rather than going through "the open internet".
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