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by takeda 4224 days ago
You can't do that. If you are an internet middle man your job is to deliver traffic from one network to another. If you're failing at it then you're failing at your job and quickly someone else will take your place and you get out of business.

On top of that there are peering agreements which might also mention against that.

What's happening here is that ISPs such as Comcast already purposefully hurt their own consumers by providing sub-par service. No one else would normally care about it but to Netflix that's large number of their own customers and they're willing to bend backwards to be able to stream to them.

The problem is that there's really no competition so either we should remove laws and allow once again for competition, provide competition for example by letting cities provide Internet as well or heavy regulation (starting with title 2/common carrier) of existing monopolies, similarly how we do this to other utilities such as electricity/water/gas etc.