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There are also technical reasons why Netflix (or any other company significantly affected by net-neutrality) needs to pay Comcast extra in order for their packets to get higher priority, so everyone can watch on Netflix without stuttering and drop-outs.

Paying for higher-priority traffic/more bandwidth looks very, very similar to paying for traffic not be throttled. Some might argue it's the same thing.

IMO the difference is that backbone packet transit is different than end-user ISP transit. Unfortunately net-neutrality gets very muddy with, eg Verizon being both the backbone and the end-user ISP. Netflix network engineers are keenly aware of transit, which is part of the reason why they run their own CDN.