Netflix Throttling Shows Problem With Net Neutrality Rules, Media Institute Head Says

Media Institute President Patrick Maines said revelations that Netflix throttled its own service to AT&T and Verizon customers show deep problems in FCC net neutrality rules. Commission officials have said Netflix, as an edge provider, isn't subject to the rules (see 1603250050). “The two companies that generate more than half of all downloads in North America are Netflix and Google,” Maines said in a commentary in The Hill. “And it was those two companies, and their amen chorus in what is laughingly referred to as the tech media, that led the way to what became the net neutrality rule. Indeed, one can say that the whole of the net neutrality case was conjured up by, and for the express benefit of, exactly two companies.” Netflix didn't comment.