> forcing ISPs to take a total hands off approach to every traffic source on their pipes? That wasn't one of them. Verizon FIOS back in like 2014-2018 was in a

> forcing ISPs to take a total hands off approach to every traffic source on their pipes? That wasn't one of them. Verizon FIOS back in like 2014-2018 was in a constant pissing match with Netflix over who would pay for peering. Netflix wanted to pay for their half, and have Verizon pay for their half. Verizon wanted Netflix to pay not only the real costs of both sides, but a huge fee to offset "excess traffic". When Netflix (and Google, etc) decided to not pay, multi-megabyte speeds dropped to a few kilobytes a second. Hopping on a VPN to route the traffic around Verizon got speeds back to normal. ISPs should be forced to peer with whoever wants to pay for peering.