I am not talking about media propaganda, I am talking about what is happening at the source. This is just another chapter of peering wars, far from being the fi

I am not talking about media propaganda, I am talking about what is happening at the source. This is just another chapter of peering wars, far from being the first in Cogent and its enemies' histories. The actual question here is whether ISPs see themselves as equals (so they can peer with each other, and let traffic fill the links naturally), or belonging to different levels of virtual hierarchy (so one has to pay the other). Netflix and its traffic volume and asymmetry is used as public attention grabbing leverage here, and government decrees are supposed to make one side weaker than the other. Anyway, that has been going for a decade, and lots of bullshit has been promoted by both sides to mud the waters. As for the latter, my point was exactly that in “normal country” it's hard to imagine, but giant corporate clashes managed to turn this into some big argument about “freedom”.