One thing most people do not understand is that the former net neutrality rules did not prohibit throttling, in and of itself. Every rule and clause in the net

One thing most people do not understand is that the former net neutrality rules did not prohibit throttling, in and of itself. Every rule and clause in the net neutrality bill has a little clause following "Though shall not [...] except for reasonable network management." What's "reasonable network management"? 400+ pages and it was not well defined. It's something that would be decided on a case-by-case basis. But ultimately if any carrier could create a compelling argument that some service was causing undue congestion on their network, they had complete freedom to throttle it. As an aside you'll note that now, and then, when companies are found to be doing they'll immediately scream "reasonable network management." Search for sprint "reasonable network management" and you'll get years of results such as [1][2][3]. Give them a cut of the profits and suddenly that congestion would be considered much more reasonable - a la Netflix/Comcast. [1] - https://www.sprint.com/en/legal/legal-regulatory-and-consumer-resources.html https://www.sprint.com/en/legal/legal-regulatory-and-consume... [2] - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/nonprofit-groups-say-sprint-will-unfairly-throttle-data-after-wimax-shutdown/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/nonpr... [3] - https://civsourceonline.com/2015/10/15/sprint-sued-by-non-profits-over-clearwire-lease-for-wimax/ https://civsourceonline.com/2015/10/15/sprint-sued-by-non-pr...