Net neutrality was not stopping this behavior, which has been happening for years * . How quickly do we forget things like the widely publicized NetFlix + Comca

Net neutrality was not stopping this behavior, which has been happening for years * . How quickly do we forget things like the widely publicized NetFlix + Comcast arrangement... Anyhow, in that monstrosity of a net neutrality bill every single rule was qualified with a "Thou shall not [...] except for reasonable network management." ISPs were completely free to throttle so long as they could do so under the pretext of reasonable network management. You'll note that even lacking clear rules, they're still using the same sort of language: “We do not automatically throttle any customers,” said Rich Young, a Verizon spokesman. “To manage traffic on our network, we implement network management, which is significantly different than blanket throttling.” --- * = granted, in the past years we only had a legally sustained net neutrality for an extremely small window of time, but most people do not realize this and think that we've had net neutrality for years and things only recently changed.