Ferras Vinh, policy counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology, says it’s too difficult to say if Netflix will raise prices because of the repeal. This may lead to ISPs offering paid prioritization to Netflix or competitors. Netflix, though, has raised prices a number of times in the past two years while Title II was in effect. And “today’s giants did grow up without Title II regulation, and they benefited from the permissive, light-touch regulatory framework from the 1990s to 2015,” says Joe Kane, tech policy analyst at the think tank R Street.

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