Why Netflix Was Less Outspoken on Net Neutrality This Time

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or.......it could be they saw the writing on the wall and have already been paying for better bandwidth since 2014....

https://news.avclub.com/netflix-to-pay-comcast-for-bandwidth...

Who knows how much of the recent price hikes relate to it too...

I would imagine the majority is Hollywood demanding more and more money to have access to their content.

Agreed. This is potentially beneficial to Netflix, et. al. at this point. It just makes it harder for startups to compete with them.

Netflix is big enough now. They can tell people that use ISPs that throttle Netflix they can’t have 4k content unless they switch to another ISP.

That is always the beauty of becoming the largest player in the space.

Imagine tomorrow that Cloudflare & Netflix came out tomorrow notifying users to switch to NewISP because their current ISP throttles their content.

I think a lot of consumers just don't truly understand the impact. I remember the amount of chatter that happened just when Netflix released the ISP speed numbers and consumers were pissed about their quality of internet.

NEWS FLASH TO ALL. Companies never care about you and your cause. They care about their cause. Never make that mistake. Google,Netflix,Facebook... Name your favorite company, they only care about surviving another day and/or increasing their influence. Sometimes their cause and yours will be the same but that does not mean it will always happen. That's why Netflix doesn't care anymore. It's not in the interest anymore.

I suspect the reason these tech giants are saying they support net neutrality while doing little about it is to keep goodwill with consumers more than anything else.

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