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by colpabar 1921 days ago
Did anything actually happen when it was repealed? I was pretty upset when it happened, especially when that awful "you can still use the internet" video was made. But I have to admit, I have experienced exactly 0 of the negatives that I was worried about at the time.
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I'm sure a lot of the companies who might have benefitted from abusing it were persuaded to wait by various public pressure campaigns. It's always easier to push stuff in slowly once attention was elsewhere.
Is there any desirable practice that net neutrality would forbid?

But to answer your question - yes. AT&T zero-rated their own streaming service: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/17/22336872/hbo-max-data-cap...

(Zero-rating doesn't mean "free". It means "You're paying for it whether you use it or not. Competitors cost double.")

Did you think they’d change everything over night? These things take time.
Most states either passed laws creating NN state wide or threatened to do so, and probably would've taken action if an ISP over stepped.