Activists really tried to push too much crap into the pile of "net neutrality." There were at least a few different issues in the NN bundle: 1 against preferr

Activists really tried to push too much crap into the pile of "net neutrality." There were at least a few different issues in the NN bundle: 1 against preferred ISP access 2 against content-based ISP restrictions 3 against charges to upstream content providers based on traffic 4 against paid prioritization 5 no change to the current peering models Most of it was IMO total bullshit. Having worked with ISPs, I can tell you that they have no real interest in being content police, prioritizing specific services, at least in the US. Their real interest for ISPs was making large sources of traffic pay. This is going to conspiracy theory land, but IMO a large part of NN was the content providers (YT, google, facebook, etc) manipulating the public into supporting some bullshit law that prevented them from having to pay ISPs for the downstream traffic they generate. And it's a lot of traffic...and billions of dollars in advertising revenue. All of that was wrapped up in the typical "call to freedom" that is the equivalent of "it's for the kids."